A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scrievers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.7 9.6 3 0 5.8 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences2519 2 0 1 1 2
Number of authors17 12 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of scrievers in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
dit the wirk o some gey great scrievers includin Joe Corrie, Robert M on page 37

2 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
no fur daily daeins. Like aa scrievers, the scrievers o the Bible bo on page vii

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Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
his dialogues wi francophone scrievers and owersetters, introduces P on page 5

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
Makars and scrievers cam fae aw ower the warld, an on page 95

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Vndir thair feit’ and Scots scrievers greatly ootnummer the English
1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
unding can help ony new Scots scrievers. Many thanks go to the Govern
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
oot the same time? Some o the scrievers yaissin thae spellins are con
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
e, yin o the kintrae's finest scrievers in the tongue, has gien up wr
ht fae the stairt, whit maist scrievers anely manage efter years o st
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ir the leid. Like mony ithers scrievers wha hiv publisht a piece shor
sed bi Scots makkars an Bella scrievers? Eh jalouse na.
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
in a hantle o oor ither Scots scrievers - Irvine Welsh, James Kelman
been able tae ensure for its scrievers an sangsters, the rich cultur
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Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ld inspire future airtists an scrievers tae big on the foonds it has
1 matches

Connelly, Gordon Celebrating Ithers, a letter tae somebody wirth celebratin, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
eyed three o the day’s best scrievers aboot scran tae scrieve a let
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
folk dinnae believe her. The scrievers ur eejits! #Corrie(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
Anither competition fir young scrievers! @scottishbktrust are runnin (2020) twitter link

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Introduction, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
es for established an emergin scrievers tae mak new wirk an get it pu on page 9

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
Syne we fun that we war baith scrievers o a kyn, sae it wasna lang er
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
igentsia, ane o the foremaist scrievers aboot the Laich Hoose in acad
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
min tae see Scots harlin mair scrievers inby the SPL, an jist the blo(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hensive dictionaries tae help scrievers tae spell consistently. Baeca on page vi

2 matches

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