A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

squares Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 2.5 10.5 0 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences165 7 0 1 0 3
Number of authors13 5 5 1 2

Occurrences of squares 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e lassie gets tae her feet an squares up tae me, Aw ah can smell af on page 5

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
o black figures. The wee blue squares ae a radio n the crunch ae fo on page 34

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
throu streets an squares, on page 5

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
an streets arranged in exact squares, circles an triangles. on page 12

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
E: I noticed. Eftir three wee squares, he wis chasin Mrs Docherty r on page 62

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hocolate sirprises an caramel squares. The only day wi ivver hid a on page 87

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
weesh thaim wes pairtit intae squares wi a puckle little-wee green on page 31
an said, "A pawn traivels twa squares in its first meeve, ye ken. S on page 34

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
squares) Knott girse came tae the tap
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ess. She started tae find wee squares o tin foil that looked as tho
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
sed, canna even wak roond the squares in the village withoot gettin(2020) search twitter
wee sing along in the Fittie squares! Fit tae dee on fit a day! ??(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
p an separated inta patchwork squares wi deep, broon ditches sliced
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on sindert squares o tha yin colour. on page 60

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Ding Doon tha Mairch Dikes, (Modern Poetry Translation 2019) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on sindert squares o tha yin colour.
1 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
There were apple squares an' flies graveyards, sodas a
1 matches

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