Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stretched	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.7	6.1	9	9.9	11.6	20.7	8.9
Number of occurrences	25	12	6	1	2	2	2
Number of authors	20	10	5	1	1	1	2

Occurrences of stretched 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
She stretched hersel up ontae her tippy-toe on page 42
on tae answer. Eventually she stretched her erms aroon it as faur as on page 51

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
e queue o holidaymakers which stretched oot o the reception and intae on page 31
those days, and the tramlines stretched as far as the eye could see. on page 75

2 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
inine he's named. Noo this wa stretched, fae east tae west Wi sevente on page 5

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The Milky Way stretched ower the sky,
1 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
Agnus's wedding, ma hale life stretched oot afore me. Ah could see me
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
made hard coz o pressure. It stretched its fingers tae touch me back
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
An' John stretched on the flair.
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Silence stretched o'er th' moonlit sky as th' s
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
grun, sae that a lang facade stretched across the grunds, an at ilka
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
alk in the hoose wi his airms stretched oot afore him and ah’d rin
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an wi airms stretched oot wide on page 51

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
She stretched hersel up on tiptoe, an peepe on page 40
uestion. However, at last she stretched her arms roond id as far as t on page 49

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
They stopped, got oot ower an stretched their legs. As
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
l, but then I realised that I stretched the cord so much, the plug ha
1 matches

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
Fin he set the strainer, and stretched the wire
1 matches

Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
pair wis right, for the tang stretched in lang rowes for maist o' th
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lin raise oot a his basket an stretched himsel. Shü strokit da white on page 28
I coodna spaek, an da silence stretched on, an on, till he grimaced, on page 58

2 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
She stretched hersel up oan tiptae, an keek on page 41
eestion. Ho'e'er, at last she stretched hur airms roond eet as far as on page 50

2 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Bot alwyes stretched awa fur thee, on page 37

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
aelic kingdom o Dalriada that stretched fae Antrim tae the islands af
1 matches