A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ligs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 3.5 1.5 0 0 113.7 0
Number of occurrences197 1 0 0 11 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of ligs in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Deith ligs abuin it, nestin at a hicht on page 24

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
a ain imagined epitaph: "Here ligs Hugh S. Pyper: fur want o ony on page ix

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Puir Tammie (folk said) ligs there yit, His banes melled w on page 14
'Whit oot-tapped the forest Ligs here, stane-dry; on page 25
a learned you fae a bairn. He ligs haurd by, on page 39

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
yir ligs are like twa spurtles on page 28

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
And live the life that ligs atween, on page 97

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
hivvens lik ti say 'Ablow me ligs a body o substance, tak tent! on page 40

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Craik Ferm. This ferm ligs juist doon the waitter frae H
t wei nou ca Auld Wolf, whilk ligs oot o sicht, in ae slack i th
the waitter frae Craik Hope, ligs
Philhope Ferm ligs atween Braidlie Ferm an Elrig
l, pairt o the Hoscote Estate ligs on the tither side o the
11 matches

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