A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

strands Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5.5 0 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1311 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of strands 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

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
fa. We hae seen three lively strands o pleyscrievin in the mid-twe on page 39

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
whaur strands yince thrangit wi the fish on page 31
y caur-parks machair bi coral strands. on page 43
aw love - hills abuin, lang strands ablo on page 57

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
hair ridin on the sunset like strands o clood abuin the west. Still on page ix
ye mistress and tae kiss the strands o yer clean gleam o hair. Tha on page x

2 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
exhaust itsel on Scotland’s strands wis minor indeed. Than mair n
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ft ay his barnet stuck in wet strands tae his heid. The grey sweats
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oer an sighs, blawin the wee strands ay hair that hing doon at the
back, twirlin wan ay the wee strands ay hair roon her finger. Yeâ€
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Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
The strands of hair stood oot roon ma hei
1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Thae thrie strands ir shewn in Christianity bae on page 15
e Norlin Airlan commonity. Aa strands o' the airts fer ection in th on page 28

2 matches

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