A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

falls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 7.7 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1615 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of falls in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
cks the boy in the face as he falls.n lies back, wavin an invisib on page 20
pable as fuck like Robocop, n falls flat on his arse, his hat whe on page 35

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
rocks with steep descent. He falls before his king, on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ee at Kempton. Its cried Echo Falls and ah've done this yin befor on page 37
aes. Ah check the telly. Echo Falls is gone great while the rest on page 39

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Crumbles and falls into decay, on page 94

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ns. An auld newspaper clippin falls oantae the Pair. Ah start rea on page 30
anda's poem as a bookmark. It falls oantae the wooden table. Dant on page 40

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ed us, takin us tae the penny-falls machines. on page 31
A piece o tuna falls oot o ma sandwich. 'Ah'm tell on page 78

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
y Petition for the poor naked Falls of Bruar being so well receiv
1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
cking it doon like it wiz the Falls of Bruar. Aw the lassies dres
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ims, through aw' the hits an' falls,
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
the falls. The haill five ae us could f
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ch a magical moment when snow falls - wonderful comments on this (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
mebody in the 'Eightsome Reef falls flat upon his face Bit they c on page 70

1 matches

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