A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

embers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3 0 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences86 0 0 0 1 1
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of embers in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
sky, n the bombers fall like embers fae a campfire, ma story echo on page 31

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
griddle ready-het on the peat embers tae fry on page 55

1 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
the saft embers o the skreich o day. on page 37

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Dancin aroond thi embers o thi spent timbers, on page 69

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
In the embers o their hames he'd anneal the on page 40

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
t a lowe back intae the deein embers o his hert. She wis a bonny w on page 17

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The glowin embers hot on page 39

1 matches

Ulster

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