A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

visitors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.5 8.1 7.5 29.8 17.4 0 88.5
Number of occurrences4716 5 3 3 0 20
Number of authors17 9 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of visitors in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n again? Surprised he's takin visitors." on page 130
doors. Doacturs, nurses, and visitors, alike. Young, auld, and anci on page 176

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
er o them micht recognise the visitors. Luckily he ran intae Patrick on page 27
pies wisnae follaeit. The twa visitors thocht it a much better idea on page 28
ie lad, in Durham jile ye get visitors.' on page 47
n Kinpurney tho Davie did get visitors. This was the haill bench o D on page 89

4 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
t-on baith bylocal folk an by visitors. Gin this were duin for Scots on page 13
e dout that maist enterprisin visitors wid favour seein a country th on page 14

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e Rector nou. He had seen the visitors' buik at the office. The circ on page 37

1 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ve: a 27 per cent increase in visitors steyin at hotels an B and Bs;
Bs; 20 per cent mair spent by visitors on bevvy an scran. Aa across
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
ken't! She said she'd lots o' visitors, one arrived when she was asl
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Three visitors turned up, aw the way frae th

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
th the Cabrach as tourists an visitors tae learn mair aboot this aft
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Entertaining visitors is pure dead brilliant
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ly pods or cabins in Skye for visitors...coz my twa dugs in a tent i(2020) search twitter

Doric

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Seaforth Road, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
there'll be nae visitors. on page 71

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
As the visitors howpit their sma G an Ts on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
airs. "Maybe you'll have some visitors this afternoon." on page 46

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cheap Visitors provides easy way to drive re(2017) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The pale puddeenless visitors arranged on page 14
In lamplight the visitors on page 32

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
late eighties he hid a hunder visitors the first New Year.
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
rdenBirdwatch Just my regular visitors dis year. Calm enough to leav(2016) search twitter
in hain a variety o feathered visitors tae my garden ower da last tw(2014) search twitter
lianbrans I love these peerie visitors ?? I've a lovely memory o see(2018) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ic hit wus gettin sax thoosan visitors ivry yeir (75% o' thaim on page 46
hit's saen an' unnerstud bae visitors. on page 49
haim tae lif' fer locails an' visitors. Affen they on page 51
gures shewed at fower million visitors tae Norlin Airlan ivry yeir e on page 63
saen es the wie tae encourage visitors, isnae bein' hefted aa common on page 64
Also on pages 65, 66, 672, 68
20 matches

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