A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

kidnapped Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 3 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 2 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of kidnapped in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
n a slave, aiblins some chiel kidnapped frae fremmit launds, else som on page 100

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
l o Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Kidnapped', cried 'Kidnappit'. This wis
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ave-maisters yonner. They war kidnapped maistly, tho some fowk selt t
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@FinHall Feel like aff been kidnapped, bin banned fae Fittie Bar fa(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
rrafirth when I wis a boy. He kidnapped sheep, coos an even bairns. H
1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
tuk tae tha cave efter he wus kidnapped by tha 'Merry Hearts o Down'. on page 29

1 matches

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