A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plough Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2 0 9.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences84 0 1 0 0 3
Number of authors5 2 1 2

Occurrences of plough in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
tmahomack in Easter Ross, wee plough-stanes (plough pebbles) were
-stanes (plough pebbles) were airtit oot. The
ge o a 1,400 year-auld widden plough fur tae bield it fae bein wor
3 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
sae they would skim aff an’ plough through oor ranks. They had t
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
lose tae the surface, and tae plough is tae bring up stones in thu
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Hae yocked the horses tae the plough, on page 11

2 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Tha plough, tha bear, on page 40

1 matches

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