A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

trenches Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 1 6 29.8 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences112 4 3 1 1 0
Number of authors7 2 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of trenches in Corpus

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Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
sleep. The nicht afore in the trenches had been wanrestfou. Govin up on page 17

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
sparkle in ony glimpse o sun. Trenches ur dug oot tae empty coal bun
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and his mates arrived at the trenches and some sotter o gutters the
OS bunnet at the rear; in the trenches ye’d tae wear the soup plat
or takkin up rations tae the trenches. Slowly the quate bit o front
artit tae rin towards his ain trenches wavin his airms aboot tae let
4 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I gret, like a bairn, in the trenches, when I saa me pals mown doon on page 63

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and saa active service in the trenches o France. on page 37
r efter he wis wounded in the trenches o France. Hid turns oot that on page 39

2 matches

Shetland

Ritch, Paolo A Remembrance Day, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, poetry
At fowt i’da trenches
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ar 1914-18 an hed focht i the trenches it Passendale. Ae tyme, whan
1 matches

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