Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

desert	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	18.5	23.2	3	9.9	17.4	41.3	17.7
Number of occurrences	60	46	2	1	3	4	4
Number of authors	20	13	2	1	1	1	2

Occurrences of desert 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

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
reid edged wi desert saun, on page 4

1 matches

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
There wis the Kalahari Desert, a muckle streetch o dry gres on page 3

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ter wi my plane in the Sahara Desert sax year syne. Pairt o the in on page 11
ement. Mind that I wis in the desert a thoosand mile frae hoose or on page 12
'This is the desert. There are nae fowk in the de on page 59
t. 'It is gey lanesome in the desert.' on page 60
wee prince traivelt ower the desert an met wi jist the ae flooer. on page 62
Also on pages 76, 77, 78, 86, 95
17 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
desert like columns o reek on page 6
Wha's thon, comin up frae the desert, on page 17

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
t it's no the answer...it's a desert...it's done wi... on page 3

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
' as their traditional voters desert them in droves, flees in the on page 142

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e witch ae a sister aff tae a desert island wioot supplies an leav on page 169

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
The desert is reid. The gied ower hoose, on page 16

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
Mojave desert dust on page 11

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ck that steyed in a bilin hot desert. He had a herd o skinnymalink on page 42
erd o kye in the middle o the desert. King Geryon wis sittin unner on page 43
it skinny kye back across the desert tae Eurystheus's palace. on page 44

5 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye lo'ed me mair than ma desert.
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
mando, an focht i the Westren Desert) he wis a wheen few months in
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
lliam. Oh, the temptation tae desert! Then we were ca’d tae Inve
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
the grey san o the Taklimakan Desert. She turnt tae Bill Henderson
some of those places that are desert now, they settled on the land
alang the suddren edge o the desert.
tae be turnt back, intae the desert, the sea, the muntains, an sh
stoory laun on the edge o the desert, he needit somethin mair focu
12 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
deein o thirst in the Sahara Desert. Airchie Reid wis a gweed man on page 8

1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
aanin on a mine in the Libyan desert could dee. But the only theng
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e seean? A mirage like in the desert? And as queeck as it arrived on page 14

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
uncan kind o body, bidin i da desert an livin aff o locusts an wil on page 83
Jesus i da Desert on page 85

3 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
er is like an ill wund in the desert. on page 83

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
17. Desert View: Tu Fu (712-770)
DESERT VIEW
The desert trees skail thair lest green
3 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
man, ït full raiks throu tha desert lukkin fer rest. But ït sa_ on page 9
t, he depairtit an went tae a desert place. An tha fowk lukt for h on page 77
oot o a man, ït gaes tae tha desert lukin for rest, an whan ït d on page 90

3 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
He nivir the sands o' the desert trod, on page 41

1 matches