A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fossil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 1.5 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences117 1 2 1 0 0
Number of authors7 3 1 2 1

Occurrences of fossil in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
'Tl tak ye ti the Fossil Grove It's aulder faur nor me on page 24
'There's fossil-fish I mynd I howkit frae the on page 25

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Excep fossil-dry, grey-bleached, on page 16

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he sayed. “It’s got to be fossil water - there’s nothing fe
ad certes be valuable, wantin fossil fuels - they wadna went tae
in Rajasthan, wi unrenewable fossil watter fae the subterranean S
in Rajasthan, wi unrenewable fossil watter fae the subterranean S
4 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
responsible use o fossil fuels on page 17

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
lno stey whan sheu wakkens, a fossil fear as oot o time as ony bae on page 91

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
fe on Earth rooed up ootside. Fossil fish fae the sediment o Devon
1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
sive Diplo Skull my island’s fossil collection is noo complete (2020) twitter link