A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

uisge Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of uisge in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
nor needin yill or uisge beatha, on page 13

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Uisge Beatha on page 177

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
tish wirds sic as whisky (fae uisge-beatha), glen (fae gleann) an
ple, compare Gaelic “beagan uisge” and Scots “a bit watter
2 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Uisge Beatha is Gaelic, fir ma favo on page 92

2 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
hm thirsty but ma proper is “Uisge Beatha” nowt mair than a muc(2020) search twitter