A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

newborn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.1 3 9.9 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences114 2 1 1 0 3
Number of authors8 3 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of newborn in Corpus

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Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Ma newborn cry. on page 8

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
But the youngest, newborn, een sae bricht on page 88

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
ked at us. Ah've never seen a newborn baby afore and ah thought the
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the byre she tuik tent o the newborn calfies, learnin them tae soo
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
She pits a silver penny in newborn babies’ prams. 50p if she l
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A craitur newborn tae this life on page 19

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
oks, da sea and (so I'm told) newborn furseals.(2016) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
linen rag an watched wrinkled newborn features emerge frae the fold on page 33
skin. What was she tae gie a newborn wean? on page 34
weans, the onlie ma wi'oot a newborn babbie tae tend tae. Maisie m on page 47

3 matches

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