Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

meenit's	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.3	3	7.5	9.9	0	20.7	0
Number of occurrences	14	6	5	1	0	2	0
Number of authors	10	6	2	1		1

Occurrences of meenit's in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
rs o stirk's shairn. A taen a meenit's brek tae gaither ma pech an l on page 22

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tae warm afore anither meenit's duin, on page 54

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wis comin oot his mouth. Ilka meenit's delay wis costin him money in on page 48

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
There wis a meenit's silence while awbody fell tae on page 91

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
different - nivver gied us a meenit's peace. on page 136

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Yer weel swelled kyte a meenit's walk on page 13

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e, bit ye jist nivver gie's a meenit's peace." on page 12
There wis a meenit's silence afore Morrice pickit on page 38

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ed tae the knackers withoot a meenit's thocht.
e door swung tee, there wis a meenit's wheesht, an then the skelp o
Minnie hid passed Meg nae twa meenit's syne, preenin the washin tae
3 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
doon tae Inverness, I hid no meenit's peace. on page 21

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
howlin alternately withoot a meenit's pause. Th only twae beasties on page 57
e, th Queen jist sayin that a meenit's haud up would cost thum their on page 91

2 matches