Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wiles	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.4	3	0	0	0	0	22.1
Number of occurrences	11	6	0	0	0	0	5
Number of authors	6	4					2

Occurrences of wiles in Corpus

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Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
tfacin life's an luck's warst wiles. on page 12
Tae wiles o changeling eggs wha hecht on page 81

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
aboot her: no the wiles on page 40

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
bles are pricked by the canny wiles o thaim that bides ablow ster
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ared us fer girls an’ their wiles. Primrose wisnae a part o’
y, ah ken that he’s got the wiles of Oor Wullie, n he is oor na
2 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Baptiser cum praichin ïn tha wiles o Judea an sayin, "Turn awa f on page 3
eneuch breid oot here ïn tha wiles, tae feed sitch a crood o fow on page 9
"A voice ïs cryin oot in tha wiles: on page 73

4 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Blint' bae hir womanly wiles, on page 19

1 matches