A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stem Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 4.1 15.1 0 11.6 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences228 10 0 2 1 1
Number of authors14 8 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of stem in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
kittles spittle frae his pipe stem. He bungs on page 66

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Could dae nocht tae stem the historic tide, on page 85

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
yer swoert pleyt rem-stem i meh haan. on page 65

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
stem the wash o bluid, on page 41

1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
o this auld-farrant belief sýstem wis that the body wis a haly
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
Davie’s wantin nou is a sýstem wi units tae fit aside o the
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
rsels - their endonyms - aw stem fae the ae root. Gaelic wis t
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
radítional Gaelic nummerin s?stem! https://t.co/njFpoZFd1d(2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
thi sea, richt en frunt o wer stem. Baggy eit's thi sharpek," ay on page 10
a sail. She curvit cn fae thi stem doon tae thi keel a bitty lyk on page 17
ssen coodna see naybudee, wer stem wis peynten tae thi sky. "A'l on page 49
weis gan tae fae doon fae thi stem an laan ona thi tap oma. Luku on page 56

6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ted, ye widna gie some'dy the stem aff yer - " on page 81
orious sicht o the traivellin Stem-Mull an mynd the anticipation on page 93

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
pit oot bi the government tae stem the sprauchlin smore o hooses
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
leaves an the sun brunt her stem till it wis hard an crined as
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
at da baess wird (da røt or stem) bides da sam an haes da sam on page 43
eekit on tae da verb stem: on page 94

2 matches

Southern

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
off and thame wi' the plastic stem were alright for folk whae he
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
t ma spade tae tha thrissle's stem on page 20

1 matches

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