Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

derval	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.9	11.5	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	23	23	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	3	3

Occurrences of derval in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
hub atween Cumnock, Mauchhin, Derval, Strathaven, Lesmahagow an Do on page 25
n Hill an juist twa mile frae Derval at the heid o the Watter o Ir on page 34
tuid picket on the brae abune Derval, wi a clear sicht doun the Ir on page 35
south . . . scatter doun tae Derval an on tae Sorn or Kilmarnock. on page 36
ked as muckle Jock Morton the Derval blacksmith gied a loud grain on page 37
Also on pages 52
8 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
words fae an auld sang cried Derval Dam are gey relevant tae whit on page 11
us conductress atween here an Derval an here an Kilmaurnock kens t on page 22
tae the terminus at the enn o Derval or the Bus Station in Killie, on page 23

7 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
in the words o ae chield fae Derval that remarkit "it's comin doo on page 6
ne anither at the likes o the Derval Show. Ae story I heard wes o on page 7

2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
a walk in the Morton Park in Derval on a Monday mornin. He saw th(2020) search twitter
r06639 that ma guidbrither in Derval, Jim Hunter shares his birthd(2020) search twitter
ok yell hear that boays fae Derval an Newmilns played in the ear(2020) search twitter
best big sisters in Gawston, Derval an the haill wide warld! http(2020) search twitter
nceDundee Aye the Nyumulls an Derval boays wis aye jealous o Gawst(2020) search twitter