A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

darling Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words36 4 7.5 1023.5 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1178 5 103 1 0 0
Number of authors13 7 4 1 1

Occurrences of darling 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
if she says anyhin aboot her darling Huey. on page 20

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
dark playing whistle all day darling...you've not stopped...I thin on page 3

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ellt bi corporate shills like Darling a Brown that votin NO wis the on page 28
el: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, wha clearly at this stage o on page 44

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
micking) Aye, Hamish is deid, darling, but it's aaricht, he went ta on page 60

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
hwell: Aa this I ken - dear, darling - on page 35

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
e soothin wurds: ‘Yer fine, darling. Awa back tae yer bed.’ Usu
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e moyes - defo an up n comin darling oh the tory pairty - thats f (2020) twitter link

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Winifred: Brucie, darling. D'ye fancy me? on page 40

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Darling! Delighted you could come," s on page 29

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
n coorses fae the likes o the Darling Academy tae keep them richt.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ed as part owner o the Silver Darling? Will eat maist o'the profits(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
The visietor, Darling, leuks fer a piece tae bide on page 8
Darling's waatchan the fock on the pi on page 9
Astrid an Darling settle in on page 10
Darling notts a plan on her slaet on page 11
The pieces Darling's been on page 19
Also on pages 22, 34, 35, 47, 48, 49, 53, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 73, 81, 83, 84, 90, 92, 93, 103, 107, 108, 111, 112, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 131, 136, 137, 138, 146, 147, 148, 154, 156, 161, 162
90 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
Darling an Astrid tak a waak thro the
Darling trys tae listen, but
an firm taks Darling’s bumbazed haand.
Darling’s reply is “Boring! You d
Darling describes the muckle domms
13 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
'Time ta move forwards, darling,' I said ta my dochter, as I on page 59

1 matches

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