A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'clay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62215
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clay in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
oosebay - the hero wi feet o clay! on page 84

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
heavy, acidic, and dense wae clay. It’s weet and cowld, and,
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
gaun on fur echty, like a wee clay dallie, mouldit, fired an cwe
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
humans. The land was full of clay from day one. A few years wit
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A clay model o' a loaf o' breed fit on page 159

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
hid tae wirk wi wis a daud o clay frae the grun. I likit clay, on page 51

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
obia against being yased as a clay pigeon. Each joab is worse th on page 122

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
; decking out your bit mortal clay bodies; primming wi your smir
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
in ti be yirdit in its mither clay. on page 135

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
A pile o shapeless, formless clay, on page 94

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In caverns filled wi crystal clay on page 15
Infants formed in the earth's clay caverns on page 29
Sae verra haurd, clay, grapeshot, on page 53
id the man wi his hert made o clay on page 155

4 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
ondemn twin bairns tae die in clay on page 66

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Clay davies frae Cuchulainn's isle on page 50
n feet owre truelins shaped o clay, on page 58

2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
oot beds on the road wi pipe clay fae the drysauters. We haed r
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
g a powl fur the chap.’ The clay davie gaed tae the jungle an
n ane o thaim wis thrawn. The clay davie sleepit i the scug o th
2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
He’d an auld cutty-clay in his teeth gruppit ticht,
1 matches

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