A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

surname Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4 1.5 9.9 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences128 1 1 0 1 1
Number of authors10 6 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of surname in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
lasses cause wuv got the same surname an he's always pittin me aff on page 85
sty, said Arlene, What's your surname again. Ma face went scarlet a on page 169

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
For an instance, Andrew Surname (twinty-fower-year-auld). on page 13

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
™en mair. Plantation records, surname studies an the prevalence o P
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
ither William shared the same surname Burns, nae maitter hou it wis
In the same wey, the Scottish surname Barnes is aye pronounced (Bar
2 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
otes nae problem according to Surname, Initials, date in brackets.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
, which includes a pun on her surname. (Marie, I thocht, in this wo
1 matches

Doric

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
movement an avoidin sayin her surname.. the name that wis her husba
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
tooedselkie Petrie would be a surname found in both island groups. (2021) twitter link

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
d Bridgehaw an Philiphaw. The surname Waugh becums pronounced Waw a
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
said the wumman, slurrin the surname wi bluid-red lips. on page 1

1 matches

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