A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

rack Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 5.6 9 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1911 6 1 0 1 0
Number of authors15 9 4 1 1

Occurrences of rack in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
shed an dried, sittin oan the rack. on page 13

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Ma royal rack o' antlers braw on page 11

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
d tied her leash tae the bike rack. All the girls wanted tae gie on page 38

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
he factory shoap, the bargain rack, on page 38
Scottish media's oan the rack, on page 46

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Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
river rack, see, pirlin an papplin on page 19

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Hush Nou, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
sned in torter, rack an pyne...
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Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
nt, an aften gars govrenments rack up lairge debts tae prevent a
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
muckle great biggin. Ahint a rack o newspapers, fruits o ilka c
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
shed an dried, sittin oan the rack.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
inside him somehow, seems tae rack his hale body fae inside oot.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
his face. "A lassie wi a good rack, a balcony...a double D delic on page 55

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ided agin itsel gyangs aa tae rack an ruin, an a hoose divided a on page 100

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e toast sat in a siller toast rack that hid curly feet. The teap
t. The teapot sat on a siller rack wi curly feet an aa, happit i
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
beens powkin oot like a toast rack cam shauchlin inaboot, sikkin
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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
e for fushin, forby a wheen o rack was growein
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
rack on the wa on page 46

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
rdine Have watched it go from rack to ruin over the past 10 mont(2020) search twitter