A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

droves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4 0 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences108 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors10 8 2

Occurrences of droves in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
who settlt in Glesea in their droves. The vowel soonds ae Glaswegi on page vi

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Wha'd cam in droves tae see them. on page 7

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
bank, peasants dee'd in their droves. At furst, folk wad glean whi on page 63

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Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
We left in droves, driven bi realities. on page 198

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
itional voters desert them in droves, flees in the face o aw commo on page 142

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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
esses votit “Aye” i their droves. Micht ane o the key factors
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
me back tae the well in their droves, an they’ll keep comin till
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Facebook link ( 2019) Central
n tae the fields and hills in droves tae listen tae thur preferred

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
n cum tae hear hïm ïn thair droves, an tae be cured o thair ailm on page 77

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Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
hey used tae come in in their droves on the nights the "Beverly Hi on page 46

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