A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mothers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.5 1.5 19.9 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences115 1 2 0 2 1
Number of authors11 5 1 2 2 1

Occurrences of mothers in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
g, here we dig graves for our mothers. on page 3

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
before I sum them up for your mothers and father. My explanation, I on page 54

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Tis the season fur family and mothers and daughters at odds wi each on page 25

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wis ma younger cousin oan ma mothers’ side. A boay ah’ve no th
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
* the bullshit that drips oot mothers gobs wi a bloody man, if ye d (2022) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e's jist ae gweed thing aboot mothers-in-law They come een at a tim on page 15

1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
bonny baby but I suppose aal mothers think that. He wis dark heade on page 21

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ewhere, I doot the school of 'Mothers knee' has long since closed.(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Tammy Hudson, throwe his mothers genes; Yid hed his ain idiosy
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
and shit doon yir throat.yir mothers a wumin #slutfraethenorth(2012) search twitter

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Inglis's (soon tae be Mothers Pride) was one I used tae see
1 matches

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