A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

- pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings - fine-grain concord -

Use in varieties of Scots

governor Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3 1.5 0 0 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences116 1 0 0 1 3
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of governor 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

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Fear and tremble barbarian-governor on page 45

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
glish occupation. The English Governor o the toun, Selbie by name, w on page 23
twenty had tae report tae the Governor at the castle. William sneaki on page 24

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
nd that brak oot in 1542. The Governor Jeems Hamilton erle o Arran h
eems Stewart wis appyntit the governor o the kinrik but haed tae war
ueen Mary’s men until a new governor, the erle o Morton, inbrocht
3 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
h’m the new Bank o Engurland Governor an ma first ruling is tae jai(2019) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
e wes a mandarin an becam the Governor o Chung-chou, a ferrawa steid
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
t daen whan Quirinius wus tha Governor o Syria. An iveriebodie wus h on page 71
yeir, Pontius Pilate wus tha Governor o Judea, Herod wus tha Tetrar on page 73
wer tae tha pooer o tha Roman Governor. These yins that wur spiein o on page 104

3 matches

Web Analytics