A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

braids Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2.5 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences85 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of braids 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

Aitchison, Craig nobody remembers the birdman - Fishin the Mairch, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
bore, fresh meets saut, river braids intae sea. on page 1

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
fae the Mare's Braids tae Portling, on page 26

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
roon the kitchen ae day, her braids an ribbons fleein aboot her f on page 40

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
oed thaim tae tak oot her twa braids, an mak thaim intae yin.
waved a haun towart her reid braids, than stertit again laidin bo
2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
pleated the horses' tails in braids, sae they'll be safe frae her
1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
bit o Edinbro she bides in, e Braids ey cry it; her man, Bryan, mu
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
above the swayan braids on page 18

1 matches

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