A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ghosties Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 2

Occurrences of ghosties in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
the richt kind ae hollow fur ghosties tae haunt. on page 6

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
daein it, said Tommy, Wooooo ghosties on page 106

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And the wrack is aw fu o the ghosties o ghosts on page 153

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and the chanter o the ghosties on page 17

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
"and the chanter o the ghosties
1 matches

Doric

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
But ghosties an vampires get in yer heed
1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Bogles an ghosties feart awa fir anither year. h(2020) search twitter

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