A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seventeen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.7 6.5 3 0 5.8 0 14.5
Number of occurrences1913 2 0 1 0 3
Number of authors15 10 2 1 2

Occurrences of seventeen in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ey'd had, and her newly turnt seventeen and engaged and in love. Wee on page 79

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
alm doon, Taz, mate, yir only seventeen, ya cunt, A think n don't say on page 18
nineteen. Big Kenzie n Eck ir seventeen n eighteen, respectively. The on page 25

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
d git a hard-oan, she wis it. Seventeen, like. Lassies that age just on page 1

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
where thir fae. They must be seventeen at maist, no a blemish oan th on page 3

2 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
'Gran, ah'm seventeen, ah'm no a daft laddie ony ma on page 7

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Chapter Seventeen on page 93
r aw aged between fourteen an seventeen. Apparently thiv jist signt a on page 169

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
retched, fae east tae west Wi seventeen forts an aw, The Kelvin bridg on page 5

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Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
aller than 4ft n looked aboot seventeen stane – they wurr like two
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e much aulder than sixteen or seventeen. ‘Here, wis that a joint?â€
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
e ae playin Sam Felder’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’. Danny boay is
1 matches

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
, nae MoT! Foo mony cars lest seventeen today? on page 29

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
than the ithers – nearhaun seventeen year auld. It maun be his wyt
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
le tryin ta coont da rings - seventeen I med it, an a gold bracelet on page 42

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
re she had brocht frae nummer seventeen. In the yin drawer was hir fa on page 30
Sally gien nummer seventeen a quick gleek ower hir shoule on page 41

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Adams, Rab Yarns 3 - A Ghost Story, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
Wey wur seventeen, eighteen or thar aboots, an
1 matches

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