A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gleam Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences75 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of gleam in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
kiss the strands o yer clean gleam o hair. That's whit maks ye w on page x
And aw the ruiftaps glint and gleam, on page 88

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
n a muckle haw lichtit by the gleam o a hunner lamps." on page 29

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Thi Leerie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
a bricht leerie in thi gleam o yer ee. on page 93

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ae the tree. Brenda had a mad gleam in her een as she fired the c
1 matches

Doric

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
They leave wi a gleam in their een and a skifflet s
1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Reflected gleam on page 40

1 matches

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