Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pithy	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	3	0	9.9	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	9	6	0	1	0	1	1
Number of authors	7	4		1		1	1

Occurrences of pithy 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

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
suffused wi aa the couthy an pithy saws o his bairntid: the mair on page 134

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Richt Scots an Pithy Scots:
Pithy Scots an Thoweless Inglish?
it’s wrang or no. Insteid o pithy Scots, we’r needin richt Sc
3 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Molière for Euripides in her pithy and maisterfu adaptation o Me
1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ts an times thegither intae a pithy hail. Adeed, "Synthetic Scots
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Twa pithy wirds that left no doot that on page 83

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ei hed tae lair, aff bi hert, pithy portions o Hailie Scripter, (
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ae his smile, in wunner o the pithy muisic. on page 12

1 matches