A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

handsel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 3 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences86 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of handsel in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
HANDSEL on page 54

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 59 - Yowdendrift / Gin I Kent, (Lallans Magazine 2021) Central, poetry
gang hame athout a handsel - on page 139

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Can it be a handsel tae the Lord o Hosts? on page 76

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
, bi Edwin Morgan 'The Hell's-handsel o Leddy Macbeth' (1.5.16-55). on page 116

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
an then Handsel Monday's the first o the year
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a daen, they hid hauden a wee handsel – the twa o them, cosy-like
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
A gey weel deserved handsel o flooers fir Joan on #Intern(2020) search twitter