A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sole Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 9.3 3 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2218 2 0 1 0 1
Number of authors20 16 2 1 1

Occurrences of sole in Corpus

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Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
stan oot on the nerrae windae sole, ding his cheisel intil the c on page 26

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Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
An ma lemon sole: warks o art - on page 106

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
oot his lanely island realm, Sole laird and captain there: on page 11

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ioners joinin Twitter fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vil on page 54

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
term lettin fer tourists. The sole reason fer this is profit fer on page 90

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The hair on ma heid and the sole o ma shae. on page 111

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rices. Perhaps this is the ae sole rate for the job, the publica on page 72

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Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
We sclimmt up on the windae-sole
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the top of ther heides to the sole of ther feyt, before and behy
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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n in, kin be suspendit at the sole discretion o the operator sub
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Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
had stuid, a fuit wes caucht sole upmaist by the stainchion o t
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
sioners joinin twiter fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vil
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
up me as though that’s its sole purpose; like the waiy Ivan t
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. He hit his heid on a windae-sole as he fell an fund hissel lyi
apologies, as gin the windae-sole had been guilty o an act o wu
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
P’s chances o haudin on tae sole pooer i the Scots Pairliament
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McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
the bogle’s sole perconnon wis taen as gien,
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@g_hibby tweeted
hoos, got a bit o' shit on ma sole.. :) (2023) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
sells ye ra'an Kippers, lemon sole an heerin on page 15

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An lemon sole an' aa on page 98

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
on here tae hide ahint wi da sole purpose o firin dug's abuse a(2021) search twitter

Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ar-hoose, oan tha deep wundae sole, wur tha oul wumman’s gifts
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