A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grains Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences116 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors10 6 1 1 2

Occurrences of grains in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
she sabs an souchs an hideous grains o my fellow prisoners, melled on page 31

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
when sorrow is countless as grains of sand? on page 73

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Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - Hame-combin, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
‘to finnd the swart grains in amang the snowcem-
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an sic things as meat, bacon, grains, butter, sugar, cheese, eggs
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
hairstin by ingaitherin orra grains. Naebody stealt, naebody yamm
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
disappeart ahint the curtain. Grains cud be heard fae there, an Ra
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Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
me and she made ma chuck some grains ower ma left shooder intae th
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
gh I canna see it, I can hear grains o sand trinkling against the
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
A billion grains o sand. A hunder thoosand mig
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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
lik an ayre wi coontless grains o sand. on page 47

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Hit's designed tae gie peerie grains o accessible information aboo on page 21

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