A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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religion Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.2 24.7 3 9.9 0 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences5649 2 1 0 1 3
Number of authors23 17 2 1 1 2

Occurrences of religion 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

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
e, that's whit Marx cried it, religion, an ah reckon he wisnae far w on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
MacSnail Ponders Religion on page 68

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
variations in colour, creed, religion an society, there's nae chanc on page 11
ous figure fae the times whan religion wis tearin the haill country on page 118
fer the problems o mankind - religion. In later years she follaeit on page 124

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
in cap cause it's against her religion tae get her hair wet. Ah got on page 12
wet - it's jist against her religion tae cut it - an she wears th on page 14
t had somethin tae dae wi her religion at first, but then ah fun oot on page 23
e top ae her. Sa against your religion tae dae social dancin int it, on page 25
n else is against your bliddy religion! on page 26
Also on pages 39, 99, 106, 169
11 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Combined religion, science, common sense, on page 18

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
"Is this aboot witchcraft? Religion? on page 112

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
some kin o ritual: we ken the religion o the time wis shamanic, an t on page 33

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
cap cause it’s against her religion tae get her hair wet. Ah got
1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
ter where yi come fae or whit religion yi are or whit beliefs yi huv
1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Combined religion, science, common sense,
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ae days o dwinlin interest in religion, modern audiences are likely
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
RELIGION
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
Scotland, fowk o ilka race an religion, language an culture, sexuali
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
eedom o thocht, conscience an religion, the Bretons threaps that, as
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
r age pregnancy, miscairryin, religion, daith, sex, loss,betrayal an
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
hud my brush wi’ organised religion in the form o’ the Catholic
git sucked intae nae Eastern religion foreby. Which mak’s it kind
g. It wis a question o sex or religion if ah’m no bein’ tae cryp
s jist respectfu’ tae their religion. An’ they’ll a’ be pray
4 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
istle. Na, we a’ ken it’s religion nae politics on that wan. Anâ
wis nane o’ us bothered by religion. Mebbe that’s cus we wis fr
ae fecht aboot whether it’s religion, fitba, politics or which sid
3 matches

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
... I’d replace aa faith an religion wi ain concait; regard fir th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
t the Scots Language alang wi religion pitten intae the 2001 Census.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
that’s whit Marx cried it, religion, an ah reckon he wisnae far w
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
oin on fur years. A mixture o religion an politics.
Religion an politics is aye a heidy mi

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
Religion an politics is an awfy mix.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
this point it did seem aboot religion an the ootcome hus gien us a
important it wisna jist aboot religion. It wis aboot politics.
ain an allooin the Protestant religion tae thrive in Britain.
went a bit pear shapit again, religion included.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Weel, first that religion hus a lot tae answer fur as w

Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
preachin religion instead o yer rhymes.
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah swear, religion maks folk stupit. Let thum aa(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
onvince weans that Islam is a religion no an actual place ????(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ye dinna mak a palaiver o yer Religion afore e lave or ye winna win on page 13

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
propaganda, the purpose o religion, on page 60

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wae the Religion worman in on page 8

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
nae ken oÂ’ serious hotbed of religion conflicts there, Jings! ?? th(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Religion, on its heid maun be on page 55
Religion, langl't wi tha deil, on page 56

2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
folk o ony political view or religion haein a notion for Erse, Ulst (2015) twitter link

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