A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

roofs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1110 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of roofs in Corpus

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Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Crab Toon Crail, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
your pantil-croodit roofs creep roond on page 40

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Yankin' tiles aff roofs wi' ease. on page 28

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
It's bonny, the village. Rid roofs. Loads ae trees. Near 'nuff a on page 1

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
shot oan roofs. The markets an the lands on page 112

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
were panned in. There wis nae roofs left on ony o the hooses and on page 18

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
Like ancient timbers roofs drop, passages on page 107

1 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
Thurs hunnurs a burds oan the roofs
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Leakin’ roofs an’ chokit drains,
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
rry I’m only doing cathedral roofs now, but I can give you a box(2020) search twitter

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ost strang eneuch tae tak the roofs aff the buildings, and droon on page 72

1 matches

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