A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

glitter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.7 8.6 7.5 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences2517 5 1 2 0 0
Number of authors13 7 3 1 2

Occurrences of glitter in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
lettin them glitter, burn up an turn intae ash on page 9

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
the muckle glitter baw gaen roond abune uis, ir on page 32

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Like It Hot and callt masel 'Glitter Toon'. The name seemed glam. on page 7

2 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Shoapaholic, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Fir a wee bit glitter and spairkle
1 matches

Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
She strinkles glitter trails ahin me
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Of glam an’ glitter.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
the teacher gied us tubes of glitter but it wis quite messy, hauf
the glue wis mixed in wi the glitter so you could jist draw with t
y explain whit it wis but the glitter jist brought everythin tae li
hem. Yesterday ah’d put the glitter on quite thick in a solid blo
e outline wis blurred and the glitter wis finer and lighter, the co
10 matches

Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
The glitter o the frost
o the glitter o frost
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
fur Mary an Joseph, skitterin glitter ower the strae tae gar it gli
ee cardboard tree, stukken wi glitter.
2 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
oot bye the loch skinklin lik glitter. Fit a waste he thocht keekin
1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
tide is oot, the beds o kelp glitter in the efternoon sun. on page 16

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
glitter fae da carpet. Da TV lowses on page 46

1 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
llow flooery een wi a grain o glitter ower hit. At least hit wis a
1 matches

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