Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

watchers	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4	4.5	1.5	29.8	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	13	9	1	3	0	0	0
Number of authors	9	6	1	2

Occurrences of watchers in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
The watchers ablow could see the chocolate on page 85
d as the boat cam closer, the watchers on the riverbank could see th on page 92
place, and then suddently the watchers noticed that slitterie stuff on page 104

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Washes the watchers till they maun chiver, on page 71

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
For a moment the watchers on the brig were aw on heckle on page 93

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
on the watchers' broos on page 23

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
nert 'yeuch' gaed up frae the watchers an, spewin haein a smittal ef on page 18

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sin hissel tae the approachin watchers.
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Finally he turned tae the watchers an said, “Behold aw ye, her

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
een firs aroon her stood like watchers, sayin naethin ava bit their
1 matches

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
online audition for The Storm Watchers, the play bi George Mackay Br on page 34

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
‘And finally, bird-watchers everywhere hiv reported that
1 matches