A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lyric Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of lyric in Corpus

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Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ae braid comedy tae heich and lyric tragedy, baith faur aff and i
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
The heid sequence o lyric poems bi Raymond Vettese set
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
oem 49 wis recognised as “a lyric in celebration of the constan
common theme in contemporary lyric poetry” – takkin nae tent
a male-authored female-voiced lyric”. A 2017 review o the 2015
3 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ny sound of music but see its lyric, ahm tellin’ ye that it’s f(2020) search twitter