A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scripture Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 4.6 4.5 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences159 3 0 0 0 3
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of scripture in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
h? Ah mean really. The Bible? Scripture? That's just on page 9

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Liquorice Allsorts durin the scripture lesson and She jist lifted hi on page 103

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
inscribit deep oan Scripture, aa tae offend, on page 112

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Straicht oot ae scripture. on page 62

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
yer tongue ye are saved. When Scripture speiks: thaim at believes in on page 97

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
h? Ah mean really. The Bible? Scripture? That’s just ancient propag
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
fur the reader – ‘as the scripture sayis’ – Ruth’s hecht o
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ight0 The hypocrisy o haein a scripture reference in his bio. ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
ffa weel so that yout days as Scripture says micht be as lang on page 10

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
imes, an he sterted tae quote Scripture at her. This wis naethin new.
ttin better. He afdten quoted Scripture. His hale life follaed the Lo
2 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a an lairn tha mainin o thïs Scripture: 'It's mercie A'm efter, A'm on page 9

3 matches

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