Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boord	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	66.6	8	22.2	0	0	0	53.2
Number of occurrences	221	16	15	0	0	0	11
Number of authors	15	3	5				3

Occurrences of boord in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
waa. He sat doun at the lang boord, pilit wi pairchment an buiks on page 12
laithern bag slippit ower the boord. 'Aye, an bring the laddie fi on page 14

14 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
is pit intae schemes lik the Boord o Ulster-Scotch's 'Heich Ploy
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
festival gies a heich-profile boord for tae shawcase short fulums
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
n fan his ee fell on a muckle boord bi the side o the road. 'Welc on page 42

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
in the merks up on the notice boord. Fae fit he's gien ye Ah see on page 59

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
n baaled ti Forster ti get on boord at the double, an the lad did on page 41

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
gweed maan. Ye sall aet at ma boord an sleep ablo ma reef.' But t on page 30

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hem flat oot on tae thi fleer boord's. Aifter at, an thi wither g on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
c and lauchter and dauncin on boord. Fireworks glimmered in the s on page 114
the waddin pairty wis held on boord the boatie, jist as the princ on page 125

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ed it aff the wa, the skirtin boord
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her like a chessboord. On yon boord, the kirk wis king, risin up
thew Bruce sat on the pairish boord. It wis ill tae squar the bui
and Auld Mattha dowped on the boord o directors o the Northern Ma
creived a heeze o sums on the boord wi a daud o chakk - it skrei
kreiched fin it skyted on the boord an she broke a nail. The auld
6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fish fur his son tae takk on boord. He felt the stert o an aura
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wull tak thair place roon tha boord wi Abraham, Isaac an Jacob ï on page 9
eat an tuk hïs place at tha boord. on page 81
ayed. An the' made readie tha boord for tha Passowre supper. on page 106
gan tae gie me up ïs at tha boord alang wi me. For masel, tha S on page 107

9 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ck en o tha yeir, tha Wattér Boord wus pittin in pipes on tha C- on page 25

1 matches

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