A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

calls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 13.4 3 19.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences3226 2 2 2 0 0
Number of authors19 13 2 2 2

Occurrences of calls in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
know about. There'll be phone-calls, on page 18

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
have intervened and made some calls. My counterpart, Ms Donaldson on page 55
process. I was inundated with calls from parents preaching fire a on page 56

2 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
central concern with what he calls 'exploration of the complexit on page 44

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
g crazy. "Nae wonder everyone calls you mad, a said. "You go bonk on page 41

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he next mornin, we made a few calls tae git a jeweller tae value on page 17
hone ah've hud a dozen missed calls fae Craig. Aw in quick succes on page 175
This explains aw they missed calls on page 180
r a quick smoke ah make a few calls tae git a location oan, Mikey on page 181

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Burner an that's whit evrubdy calls him. Bunsen's wan ae the popu on page 46
N the pub an she's whit ma da calls aw fur coat an nae knickers, on page 53
ae nip wee Chrissie then. She calls him wee Chrissie but he's the on page 72
fart that ma da knows; ma da calls him Big Davy Fae The Lawies a on page 97
hospital the day - or as she calls it Fuckhead Hospital. She's b on page 158
Also on pages 169
6 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
name. Who in their right mind calls their child Stella Marie? Whe on page 13
half six in the mornin. Phone calls at this time only ever spell on page 14

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Calls ye intae the big hoose, sits on page 32

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t’s text messages an missed calls landin. Four ay them ur fae t
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
her flat bar the shoap, as he calls it, is boarded up wae steel s
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oot the door. Ah hope someone calls the polis, but ah’m no gras
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Wi' fairness, aw' the play it calls,
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
sais quietly. Si hardly ever calls us by oar first name an ah gu
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
e see how she uses it and she calls abody ‘hen’. So clearly she (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ats nuthin tae whit ma isobel calls me - trust me lol (2020) twitter link
her - laddie disnae get many calls noo - try bdfm lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
For the first time there wis calls for him tae be jiled. on page 118

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
sie. "Dinna worry, fin nature calls
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
meed a puckle important phone calls, an he skraiked a bit more. H
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
o it should be a good day for calls (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lans. Shü medd several phone calls. Right, dat's aa organised, s on page 26

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
a full hoose / stack and dir calls come up in waves on da wind. (2020) search twitter

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