A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

elegy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 0 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences74 0 0 0 0 3
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of elegy in Corpus

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Central

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
wis his favourite sang and in Elegy, On the Death of Scots Music on page 46

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
r a nod at Robert Fergusson's Elegy on the Death of Scots Music i
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
the line fae Tam Samson's ‘Elegy’: ‘And eels, well-kend fo
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
fur her wirds. Poem 66 is ane elegy in female voice anent marital
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
r, this #UlsterScots "Habbie" elegy is aa the go in Ballygellick. (2014) twitter link
lycarry screived him a bonnie elegy in the aul leid. (2014) twitter link
Burns got awa, he scrieved an elegy for him. (2015) twitter link