Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

taller	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.4	9.5	4.5	0	0	20.7	0
Number of occurrences	24	19	3	0	0	2	0
Number of authors	12	9	2			1

Occurrences of taller 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
it went, "Wan side'll make ye taller, an the ither side'll make . on page 50

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
derk een, derk chessie hair, taller than maist, lank an weel-faur on page 134

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'What's happening here?' the taller wan says, grabbin me while hi on page 28

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
The taller ae the twa polis let go. Shee on page 1

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Poor Granny even though she's taller than me. She's takin nae chan on page 7

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
friendly giant (he's slightly taller than me) but see next tae ma on page 169

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
er cams oot on yer screen ony taller than a pincil, am I richt? He on page 146

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
, the ancient skrankie wumman taller and taller gettin, langer and on page 44
annie grew. When Grannie grew taller and taller, she got mair on page 56
Soon it wis taller than Geordie, but it didna st on page 58

5 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
a munchkin even though she's taller than me. They're takin nae ch on page 6

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
star, if he'd been few inches taller. He extended his haun, and ah on page 57

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
pair eh twins, they wurr nae taller than 4ft n looked aboot seven
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Bit as for linth, she wis taller nor maist o the weemen an mon
ny o the men. She wis a sicht taller nor Guzul, wha wis totty.
rd. He wis juist a wee bittie taller nor Beatrice, bit he gied the
3 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
, "wan side will make ee grow taller, an e ither side will make ee on page 48
e ither, an growan sometimes taller, an sometimes shorter, until on page 51

2 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
wa fae the rest o the weemin. Taller than them aa, her dark skin g
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
t, "Yin side wull mak ee grow taller, an th ither side wull mak ee on page 49
th ither, an growin sometimes taller, an sometimes shorter, until on page 52

2 matches