Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thousands	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.6	5.6	1.5	0	11.6	31	4.4
Number of occurrences	18	11	1	0	2	3	1
Number of authors	14	9	1		1	2	1

Occurrences of thousands in Corpus

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Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 58 - The Rooks, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Bi thousands ower the French plane, on page 112

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
llowin bitterness tae set in. Thousands ay gigs, sessions, recordins, on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
batterin off the windows like thousands o tiny hammers. She's a lost on page 36

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
stid aff a fleysome onding bi thousands o youllin Fuzzy Wuzzies, (lik on page 68

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
he dictionary [DOST] contains thousands of antedatings of Scottish ph
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
dae this, eh? Ah’ve made ye thousands noo, tens ay thousands.’
noo, tens ay thousands.’
Through the caunel light, thousands ay dust particles swirl roon
3 matches

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ings involving hundreds, even thousands of people…Scots seem to hav
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
amn hes an arse, he will make thousands of us feel auld ??(2020) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
NP Well, ma faither an tens o thousands o socialist ex miners are the (2022) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
een when Bob Cooney mobilised thousands tae run Moseley and his fasci (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
davidhunt100 I've walked here thousands o times and it gets me every (2020) search twitter
at Sumburgh dis afternoon and thousands o guillemots and maalies (ful(2015) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
s (the Carse) over a century. Thousands upon thousands. For livestock(2020) search twitter

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
at period! Its gang oan fur thousands o years... those Victorians(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
So he eats thousands o fowk
1 matches