A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tiny Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.3 17.5 20.7 9.9 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences5435 14 1 4 0 0
Number of authors35 22 10 1 2

Occurrences of tiny in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Last came a tiny wee feeble, squeakin voice (" on page 39
ix thing she knew a shooer ae tiny pebbles came rattlin in at th on page 40

3 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ur heads turn tae look. A wee tiny boy walks oot, no even the he on page 52

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
arenae tiny but tidgie, on page 16

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
thon muckle sumph o a referee Tiny Wharton had disalloued the go on page 23

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ack of white on white, steeks tiny as a spider's footprint. My m on page 3

3 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
ye go. Onywey. They huv this tiny box room, wee-er than the yin on page 7

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
On all that's graspable by tiny digits on page 31

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the corner ae the room. This tiny creature wis tryin tae swing on page 14

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
it again. Missus Monk's a wee tiny wummin in her fifties wi dyed on page 83
if a lassie dis even a teeny tiny wan by accident she's the big on page 89
ing this year - I wid like a tiny dog. Her face wis that seriou on page 169

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
A tiny scrap o wean cam birlin oot on page 70
For Tiny Tim or you and me, on page 73
This tiny wrunkelt scrap o thing on page 76
The edumification o aw they tiny Tams and Teenas on page 85

4 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
e Prince could only open it a tiny wee bit coz the wind and the on page 9

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
in the sool, like tiny starns. on page 14

1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
r, "I did not not like it one tiny little bit Grand Mother, but
1 matches

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
hat wiz Faith, wi hur lisp an tiny tartan skirt. Aw-w-w. Turns o
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
be nae argy-bargy and jist a tiny sample fae the fouth o vocabu
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
in. The idea that Pechts war tiny wee fowk also is pairtially t
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
The population o Scotland wis tiny. Nae mair nor a puckle o lair
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
them boring intae me, leaving tiny marks; I can see them now whe
the field, falling doon in a tiny spray, a kindo ash landing in
efter I got up and felt they tiny bits o something that had bee
3 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e touched his chin, covert wi tiny pits unner the stubble that I
ss sayed the better aboot the tiny isolatit haet o the rw.
2 matches

Smith, George Electrical Love, (Thi-Wurd 2013) Central, prose
– them n the barman in this tiny fuckin room. Ah nods n smiles
1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
eens @TheGreenParty Aff their tiny heids. (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ke conference do I'm doing my tiny bit by recommending considera (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
youth teams - aye the eos is tiny me thinks (2020) twitter link

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Even in early days a tiny wee dram on page 11

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
het, soapy watter. He saa her tiny figir encased in a flooery cr on page 90

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ak picturs far ye leuk like a tiny wee leprechaun in comparison on page 7

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
They are perched on tiny ledges on page 4
an yer twaa tiny cakes on page 14

2 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
dreel a bittie afore) til the tiny The Brownie of Bodsbeck or Th on page 126

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
dreel a bittie afore) til the tiny The Brownie of Bodsbeck or Th
1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
leum polish and geraniums, wi tiny rooms, and a lavvie on the st
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
try tae force it back up… A tiny ah comes oot the megaphone. T
1 matches

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
fit it wis. We war faced wi a tiny little petrified beastie that
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
h murder scene they’d found tiny bitties o rubber. That wiz it
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
at the Venue in Aiberdeen - tiny he wis, but, fit a voice - l (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
it's in yer heid noo or is it tiny(2020) search twitter
@Drewjarviescomb @peer_audrey Tiny min(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
thi tiny black spex o thum
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fully peeled the fish off the tiny skeletons, and ate every scra on page 9

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
peerie mootie (StE 'tiny' no "small very") on page 100

3 matches

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