Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

oral	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	8.4	12.4	0	0	0	20.7	3.9
Number of occurrences	28	25	0	0	0	2	1
Number of authors	14	12				1	1

Occurrences of oral 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

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
sely local tradeitions, baith oral an scrievit. The anely import on page 11
ng - he added tae the strang oral tradeitions by readin books a on page 15
Nummer Power wis based on the oral history o ma granfaither's br on page 20
ither wis closer tae a leivin oral tradetion than ma faither. He on page 23

5 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
is absolutely steeped in the oral traditions of the west and th on page 3

1 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
aye inclusive language o thon oral tradeition - for certes, as on page 59
ht-faurrit authenticity o the oral tradeition that baith makars on page 62
ce wi the traivellers and the oral tradeition, the 'art' poesie on page 64

3 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ent the quaistion o a canon o oral leeterature (a ken its an oxy on page 75

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
gaes back tae the days o the oral tradeetion, whan naethin wis on page 56

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
alects, its ain books,its ain oral culture, an is uised as a med on page 7
en tae dae wi comedy, sang or oral history. In the prent media, on page 12

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ent thaim. Whan thir gliffs o oral langage is felt the likelihei on page 35
As Scots is an oral leid, ae problem that speaker on page 48

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ordnar lealty o its texts tae oral tradeetion, takkin in airs pe on page 69

3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
fae ane that has come tae the oral tradeetion throu her faimily, on page 77

1 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 58 - Newsins fa the SND, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
i oor word collection, either oral or readin fur us, we'd be onl on page 110

2 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
oral culture
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he realised that this wis foo oral transmeession wirkit - it wi
1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
” but it “was retained in oral traditional storytelling and
1 matches

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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
whan A wis ae callant, local oral histor hed eet, at
wur ae laddie up Borth’ick, oral tradition hed eet at ae day w
2 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
an' private archives an' the oral on page 30

1 matches