Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chield	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.1	6.4	3	19.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	17	13	2	2	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	5	1	1

Occurrences of chield 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, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
auchled treisur o a lang deid chield on page 2
Yin chield brade ootside, the ither hid, on page 26

4 matches

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Daes onybody mynd this chield o ere the streen? on page 15

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ind gettin a phone call fae a chield that wrocht in the Consulate on page 14
nkind" The fact that he wis a chield amang us takin notes, meant t on page 18
ither wis a pit sinker - the chield whase darg it wis tae mak new on page 23

5 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
s pre-ordained accordin tae a chield cawed Huldrych Zwingli. on page 82

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
ruppit weel in the words o ae chield fae Derval that remarkit "it' on page 6

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
o Ulster series. Whit a fine chield he wis. https://t.co/OqSd6DOh(2020) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
o twal stars. An she bein wi chield on page 81

2 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A funny chield tae lukk at aal the saam; on page 39
And gae the chield his due, he never comes on page 40

2 matches