A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

soons Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.6 11.6 9 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences3123 6 0 0 0 2
Number of authors23 16 5 2

Occurrences of soons in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
tae rhythms an soons aroon us, on page 5

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
laikit cat oot thon tree? The soons comin oot o't coud wauk up th on page 18

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ses gan thir slow gait, heavy soons, fae west's green isle, tae E on page 22

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
o the deid tae dowlie soons o nichtingails on page 66

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McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
irthin pool in Larbert makkin soons lik a hale fairmyaird o beast
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
n guesses by analogy wi ither soons
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ays. But how can I? A? Naw, A soons daft, like A’m yawning. Oh.
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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
r as ask… bit it’s hoo it soons in yer ain heid as matters. N
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
an the basic soons
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
g: somethin awfu had happent. Soons became distant, no sae lood
There wis soons fae ahint a pairtly open door
There wis soons fae ahint a pairtly open door
wumman,” Bill sayed, “She soons like an auld wumman. Whit if
he sayed at last, “an it soons lik mair tribble nor just sen
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Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
u process in Catalonia. It aw soons like a sair fecht, but it’s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
the front o her, but hoo she soons I canna mak oot ava. May be s
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solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
n cryed on the cat, wi kissin soons. "Come here, Crannie!"
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@jack_capener tweeted
@Historic_Ally Soons lyke a fair interesting topic(2018) search twitter

@iainnicol tweeted
_Photo Energy savin. Love it. Soons guid fir the planet.(2020) search twitter
inkin @LadyJinty I mean, that soons like a winnin strategy fir ji(2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
@DrMDempster Thon soons awfie straight forrit!(2018) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
yer nummer ane fanquine (thon soons gey queer, hoowinever...) htt(2020) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ion. It wasna as coorse as it soons, for the craturs were aye fed on page 55

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Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Her voice it soons like aa thi thunner. on page 13

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
up the stairs. Syne, tae thon soons wis addit the rasp o Meg Rams
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Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
n an a tattiebogle.’ Aa the soons are there: ‘…washin skelp
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@d_anderson878 tweeted
Fitin fine aat soons. Micht dae that wi mine (faan(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
t @d_anderson878 @DrMDempster Soons richt tae me quine.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Sitch sichts an soons fae lang ago on page 13

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Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
r delicht my ear... the music soons sae sweet,
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