A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

posts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14 11.8 22.6 0 29.1 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4523 15 0 5 1 1
Number of authors28 15 8 3 1 1

Occurrences of posts in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Its posts he made o siller, on page 6

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
There'll hae tae be border posts on page 144

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
writ a million times on lamp posts aroon Renfrew, an on the skat on page 131

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
eople, that's all Leanne ever posts ~ that and the occasional ins on page 91

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
But as the hingin posts went up wi bauks an dwangs,
1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
the nummer o hatefu an reekin posts kept birlin tae shitestormic
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
d tae use two hoodies as goal posts and the game only ended when
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ry arnae likely tae finnd new posts ony time suin. The unemployed
1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
a nummer o key organisations, posts an projects, such as Scots La
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the posts
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
er aboot Scots, thir twa blog posts were baith aboot the value o
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
en hacked ookin at yir 3 prev posts! xxx(2015) search twitter
@nickstoppani Thank you! Yir posts last year helped me regain ma(2017) search twitter

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@RobertMiggins Posts aboot sunshine an beasties so(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
, we could creosote the fence posts and the sleepers afore I buil(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
gh hees either putting on the posts for bites - or to get attent (2020) twitter link
hen ee keep bumpin intae lamp posts - foke gee u funny looks (2020) twitter link
erse fae rab c nesbitt - ur posts gash btw lol (2021) twitter link
au10 @georgegalloway m8 these posts r only put on to cause hatred (2020) twitter link
spent awe last night blocking posts about awe the shite in the us (2021) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
streets flared wi fuzzy lamp posts, self absorbed on page 10

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ers an runs, firewid, cairts, posts an palin wire, barras, bikes, on page 93

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
an haimmerin nails inno fence posts. They war the richt heicht an on page 51

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
posts. Noo the posts were six poun each, Jonsar mi
show. Leeks the size o pailin posts, tatties the size o neeps, ca
2 matches

Fowler, Ross Sunday Fitba wi ma Faither, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
wi a puckle of ganzies as the posts an wint an got the fitba oot
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
h reminder tae aa fa read his posts juist hou guid ye’v got it
1 matches

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
a’ the posts were perfect; (his desire)
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
it it ye read haaver i' these posts whilst on the watterie!(2014) search twitter
ks tae aabody fa retweeted ma posts really appreciate it an thank(2014) search twitter
for sharing links, videos and posts on social media. Sign up for (2016) search twitter
t sorry quine fur ma hinmaist posts - noo ah'll ye stop hitting (2018) search twitter
the quine sin ah wrote those posts!(2020) search twitter
and 1 other occurrences.

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ond een wis wappit in da goal posts an dey haaled aff dir gansies
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ta an Facecloot I kin edit me posts, on here I hae tae delete an (2021) search twitter
emories ir throwin up various posts I made aboot the inauguration(2021) search twitter
rted, an whinivver I see auld posts fae afore times turn up on me(2021) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I love these posts. I feel there are more whimbr(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he heids o the yett an fencin posts; wi the tin lids, o empie she
1 matches

Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
e who’d been in the original posts! It’s been a long oul day on (2021) twitter link