A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

painted Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.8 13.9 15.1 9.9 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences4127 10 1 1 0 2
Number of authors24 17 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of painted in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
w ah saw wis a trio ae pusses painted in sheer disbelief. on page 35

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ned white inside but we spray-painted it aw wae our mentions, the Y on page 4
k. The climbin frame is spray-painted like fuck anaw. YT, scrawled on page 24

3 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
on Picasso gadgie - him thit painted thae big shoogly e'en an' tha on page

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
involving parents, bairns and painted eggs} on page 64

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nd welcomin vibe. Each wah is painted in bright primary colours and on page 159

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ye painted the air, the wind, the storm, on page 104
ye painted through the pain. on page 106

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Their faces, fiercely painted, flickered briefly in the fla on page 40
They painted a 'Border' ootside the Mine on page 80

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
aw hus curled hur white hair, painted hur thin lips bright pink and on page 2
than that Jeannie Brennan. Ah painted ma lips a little reider, grab on page 55
Ah always preferred the hills painted in God's colours tae any park on page 81

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
their box. They wore brichtly painted reid and blue uniforms and aw on page 70

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
An painted rooms is bonny,
An painted rooms are bonny,
2 matches

Lamb, Darcie T in the Park, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
lookin aboot, gettin ma face painted and aw that.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay corrugated iron an green, painted timber, it rises fae the conc
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a table. Some cunt’s spray painted oan the waw, ShITE OFFICE wae
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
mage of the garage doors with painted saltire in original]
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
'Cause the bedroom's painted red!
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
el at a white metal fence.The painted metal was shaped like wolves
The view fae the windae painted quite the picture, deep charc
2 matches

Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
memories ur painted wae mischief. Am
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rings me tae this pukey yelly painted waitin room. Kennin how these
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
at carberry because its been painted red/white/blue - its certain (2021) twitter link

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
"it was painted by Picasso, the teacher said, on page 40

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
painted the timmer fence wi? If that
1 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
e the grun an saw a pentagram painted far he wiz lying. He coughed
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cute hedgehog painted steen £9 fae The Bloo Toon T(2017) search twitter
Guinea Pig painted steen £8-50 fae The Trading (2017) search twitter
Fun dinosaur painted steen fur sale at The Trading(2017) search twitter
Fish painted steen fur sale at The Trading(2017) search twitter
er's Day present - primroses painted staines fae only £10 The Tra(2017) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e sit on the big wooden kist, painted with the words, A. and V. She on page 30

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Some wi their weemen's names painted on page 88

1 matches

Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
That the Inglis vans were painted half o red an half o white
And there was an Eaton emblem painted right there upon the door
2 matches

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