A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sparrow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 3 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences62 2 0 0 2 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of sparrow in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
yon sparrow's a speug, on page 16

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A widnae hurt a sparrow,
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
His eye is on the sparrow,
His eye is on the sparrow
2 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
g an no kennin it wis cried a sparrow. Never at hame but, we were a (2020) twitter link
5, didnae ken the wird sparra/sparrow. Jist speug. Same wi stuckie,(2020) search twitter