A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boughs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 1.5 3 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences73 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of boughs in Corpus

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Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
rocked by their boughs, songs in their whisper on page 51

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
dden by the owerhingin hizzle boughs. Miss Honey paused wl wan hau on page 177
e hoose. Its massive spreidin boughs seemed tae be enfauldin and c on page 178

2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the Fir Widdie, or auld beech boughs in Kilrogie Wids. Cottarfowk
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a fork wi a boorach o willow boughs that fowk caad the thunnerbir
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
they sway on the boughs whaur I sit on page 145

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
no time fir dy wilt göds. My boughs sanna be gallows here. on page 26

1 matches

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