A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dragons Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.5 6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences115 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of dragons in Corpus

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Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
tae see if they can catch the dragons, kelpies an' bonny fire dance on page 6

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
"Awa ye dragons, or ye'll feel ma steel!" on page 35

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
hou's the burn dragons, see, up on the haughs? on page 21

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
a in the air (which they call Dragons) of a red fiery colour, appea
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
ce. Aa bluey-green snakes, an dragons, an daggers, an things; there
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
- aire is nae sic things as dragons, Nessie aye, bit nae dragons!(2015) search twitter
Fitiver neist! Believing in Dragons! Happy St. George’s Day tae (2019) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wae these dragons' eggs on page 4

1 matches

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ites that doon an runs aff to Dragons Den?????? (2021) twitter link