Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cattle	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.7	5.6	10.5	9.9	11.6	20.7	8.9
Number of occurrences	25	11	7	1	2	2	2
Number of authors	20	9	6	1	2	1	1

Occurrences of cattle 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
m-yerd-while the lowin ae the cattle in the distance wid take the on page 123

1 matches

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
, went wae lorries or vans or cattle wagons or cars. Nae care in t on page 77

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Couttie made his livin drovin cattle an wis on his wey north tae b on page 17
ly a time fer horse-tradin an cattle-buyin an o course fer mony ye on page 30

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e catch a glimpse o horsemen, cattle lowin in the nicht, on page 40

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
saicond sicht, stories o sea cattle an watter horses, gliffs o ce on page 62

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 67 - Ane Amang Monie, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Hamilton, poetry
ti whaur Daith caa'd his cattle hame on page 143

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Hielan cattle forbye.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Queen Street Station - mare cattle fur the meat grinder, waitin
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
hen the group had tae cross a cattle grid. A stopped the group an�
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ok like child's play Inside a cattle float they'd heaps O tatties, on page 15

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
issed naething. A lifetime in cattle-dealin hid made him as sharp on page 94

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
e tae unnerstaan. The lowin o cattle, the bleatin o sheep, on page 15

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
fairmyaird-while e lowan o e cattle in e distance wid take e plac on page 120

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
teerin ootbye. The ruts o the cattle coort war shmoodery wi skiffi
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
cattle’s cradles, an her teeth war
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@PrinceOfDeevs Aye, cattle. (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
oats and yows and kye (hid's cattle);
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
bit da kye is da collective 'cattle', i.e. a gadderie o coos as e on page 48

1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ower. My faeder said at afore cattle grids dey wir grinds on da ro

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r abreid, herrien ither focks cattle, thay kam upo ae
o Harden keepit thair herried cattle; (gey affen frae the
2 matches

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
And the wee cattle wagon headed out at a quarter
would all line up for the oul cattle wagon again
2 matches