A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

friendly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.7 19.5 6 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4438 4 0 0 1 1
Number of authors24 18 4 1 1

Occurrences of friendly in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nervous. A reassure him wae a friendly bit ae chat. 'Fancy jumpin in on page 12
'Ha! Tazper the friendly ghost!' Broonie shouts. . on page 30
teacher, Mr McGiver, is quite friendly wae their headmistress, Ms Do on page 49
is overty friendly but it's a wee acknowledgemen on page 59

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
is. Then this wid seem like a friendly warnin." on page 180
e proclaimed, in her warm and friendly voice. She then gestured tae on page 189

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e the vicious kelpies and the friendly an helpfu brownies, the fairi on page 29
the period that he wis on gey friendly terms wi wis General Lafayett on page 123

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
said on the tin it's dolphin friendly. on page 86
. Clicky's no exactly the big friendly giant (he's slightly taller t on page 169

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Ah turn tae a friendly lookin ginger lad. He puts me on page 4
ook roond. There are plenty o friendly lookin lassies and some huvna on page 21

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
n the darts team? There wis a friendly next Wednesday nicht against on page 94

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
worst hing wis, they wur such friendly bastards, ah couldnae get awa on page 79

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
sae hi-tech an user-friendly on page 20

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
r Fowler's T.L.S. review 'Eco-Friendly' (Umberto Eco-Friendly) under on page 95

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ege, manawdge is ‘a kind of friendly society or savings club to wh
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
about a friendly drop of rain,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
surprise the driver gies us a friendly nod ay the heid an they conti
ard him. ‘Just tryin tae be friendly tae the cunts.’
2 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t the bar. Ah acknowledge the friendly faces ah see; ah nod ay the h
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
and isolating, or just want a friendly chat, my phone number is 0786
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ortunate habit of getting too friendly with the Chinese. Even here.
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McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
a team wull tak on Qatar in a friendly gemme at Easter Road. There
ther dreich-as-cauld-parritch friendly gemme tae warm up for the mai
2 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
the ither day a wee bit friendly argie-bargie stertit up
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
much as a by your leave or a friendly chat, he wis getting riled. T
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
a this is ower, is there dug friendly pods or cabins in Skye for vi(2020) search twitter

@MizLiot tweeted
If ye’re being affectionate, friendly or ye dinnae ken somebody’s (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Westside_AFC good to see this friendly went ahead guys - defo get a (2020) twitter link
if its anythin like that last friendly afore the lockdown - will b (2021) twitter link
_Official hope yous can get a friendly lads - enjoyed ma wee trip u (2020) twitter link
ever a team deserves to get a friendly greenlaw does - pick up the (2020) twitter link
ads - popped in for the next friendly as yous were going out - cav (2020) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Safely ower the friendly main, on page 28

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
peaking and to socialise in a friendly and novel environment. on page 36

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@FaeFoggie tweeted
ters ti see fit yi like. Affa friendly c(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
case. However, yir Dundee Utd friendly? (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Nice to be greeted by a friendly face first thing Monday morni(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
he Rüthbünker press. My new friendly image https://t.co/0itTduDKcF(2016) search twitter