Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

worthy	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6	7.4	4.4	0	0	20.7	0
Number of occurrences	20	15	3	0	0	2	0
Number of authors	15	10	3			2

Occurrences of worthy in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
, are baith sat oan the vomit-worthy, cream leather couch. Craigy on page 129
e, likes. He gave performance worthy ae Broadway. As soon as they on page 196

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
A tale worthy o some auld Scots ballade, on page 21
A worthy 'Justice Meenister'! on page 34
a furthie true-heartit worthy an sadly lamentit frien. This on page 110

3 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Aa: Lord, I amnae worthy tae resaif ye on page 97

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
A tale worthy o some auld Scots ballade,
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
MacDiarmid appear to think it worthy of consideration that the Eng
1 matches

White, George But the heart is gallus, (Facebook 2024) Central, prose
�� favour foun’ in wan less worthy…..
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
is uised tae gie support tae worthy causes roond aboot.
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
faimily an existence worthy o human dignity, and hae it e
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
He wis brave an’ worthy too.
Worthy, loved an’ needit.
2 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
nt use iy just now. It is a worthy endeavour to try to increase (2019) search twitter

@RickHJohnston tweeted
glish 24/7 tae be thocht o as worthy o respect. https://t.co/EgPBA (2022) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
an, I would have to say, it's worthy of the great Corbeille a Papi on page 58

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
truck is roadworthy." " Road worthy" spluttered
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Raisin' hillocks o siller for worthy causes. #Danceathon(2019) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
gh o iz left tae coont as yin worthy yin!" on page 14

1 matches

@projecthawick tweeted
A Hawick worthy who lived in a basement flat (2020) search twitter