Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ghaistly	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4	2.5	9	0	0	0	8.9
Number of occurrences	13	5	6	0	0	0	2
Number of authors	5	3	1				1

Occurrences of ghaistly 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

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ower fish an fishers, ghaistly shoals come haunt, on page 39

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
bluid on’t?” bullert the ghaistly voice.
1 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH
dnae understaun. He spied ten ghaistly fitbaw players, rinnin aboot,
‘Git him!’ screamed yon ghaistly Keeper.
3 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ruined castle o Coull, far a ghaistly bell is heard tae ring fin a on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - David, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, poetry
May his ghaistly fitsteps climm on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fair teen wi the thocht o the ghaistly laidder raxxin frae Heiven ta
n her bowster an dreamt o the ghaistly laidder that raise frae the w
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
bs, thinner than mist. As the ghaistly bunnet meltit awa tae nocht,
n a neuk in a deid feint. The ghaistly veesior hid vanished. Miss Vi
2 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A'll scrieve tha Scotch that ghaistly yearns on page 27
ae tha gloamin thinkin o thon ghaistly brig on page 54

2 matches