A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

carol Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 17 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3733 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors13 10 2 1

Occurrences of carol in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
he Yule tree, the music o the carol service, an the blythe smilin on page 81

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
an CD by Dr Chris Robinson an Carol Ann Crawford, on the Scots sp on page 87

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Carol Ann Duffy and Vikram Seth, on page 37

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
fessor Fowler queried whether Carol Anne Duffy warranted a place on page 95

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
uit o’ tests. In this group Carol wis recordin’ the results,
Sae has jist lookin’ doon Carol’s cleavage done this tae ye
r Blood pressure?” At which Carol got up, ca’ him a “Perve!
3 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Jim and Carol (the couple in the story) liv
p the snow aff the drive way. Carol watched “One of Us” oan t
(Crash!) They awoke. Carol rollt ower and nudged Jim ‘
that he didnae want tae make Carol crabbit, slouched doun the st
st seek efter one whiff. Even Carol had tae cover her nose tae av
20 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
oing intae the barbering game Carol. I new I’d be stuck with OAP(2020) search twitter
nce Carl and kept calling him Carol. By the way Carol, we’ll wel(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
getting ready tae tak part in Carol Service this afternoon! #inth(2014) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
ntine's Day themorra! Compare Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' (2018) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e wis shockin - get big andy carol tae shooder charge the fecker (2020) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ld an hungeret, watchin three carol singers buyin ferlies frae a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
word means Dirty. Thanks tae Carol. xx(2015) search twitter
day/night before. Thanks tae Carol. xx(2015) search twitter

Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
Trying to translate a carol into Orkney Scots each year - (2020) twitter link