A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stale Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.7 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors13 10 2 1

Occurrences of stale 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

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
like the guff o his stale dowts on page 29

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae the bar ah'm hit wae the stale smell ae drink and smoke. Sin on page 71

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Uv course ill stale oot yir purse on page 20

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The poetry readins wir stale an twee, on page 133

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Livin in yer Granda's stale auld beuks aff beuk barrasi on page 31

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
like a curry too - a stale wan. He cannae huv changed hi on page 20

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
inkin mattress, which smelt o stale pee an sweat an things unment on page 21

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an auld stale buns or breid on page 38

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Frichtsome sweit jeeled oan stale straw, on page 112

1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay tobacco smoke an insipid, stale beer greets us like an auld f
1 matches

Doric

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ere wis hailstones as herd as stale saffties and the size of smal
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t wid accept single purchase, stale smell on baith & well used bi(2019) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
seediness, wi da soor smell a stale beer drifting oot troo da doo on page 57

1 matches

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