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The word 'corpse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corpseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92916
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 corpse in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
cannibal corpse ye zig-zaggid ower, on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
le shards an bluish energy, a corpse arose fae da icy craetir, gar
John sought efter. Da unlivin corpse lifted its airm, an its hand
f. Afore he could feenish, da corpse struck him doon wi a bolt o d
3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
iks. "Ah'm raelly deed. An at corpse aneth the grun...is raelly me on page 77

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
the sma corpse even sma’er noo.
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ot, afore bein murdert an his corpse hung. He wis hackit intae bit
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
. His skin wis flayed fae his corpse. Gin ye’r in Embra ye can s
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
oodie craws, pickin' ower the corpse Oo' awbody's guid nim. That's on page 9

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d jist been passed the rotten corpse ae a deed bairn. Everboady el on page 48

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wi his heid in his aurms. His corpse wis sent tae follae McGregor. on page 42
t in fer the purpose, wis the corpse o Cossack Jock, wi a cannle a on page 93
tae near whaur the heid o the corpse lay alow the sheet, there wis on page 94

7 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
A corpse stuck intae peat is mair secu on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
g chap.’ ah hear the walkin corpse shout efter me but it’s too
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
till wis the turnin ower o ae corpse tae fin hauf a face missin, a on page 53
shot on the spot an left his corpse lyin there for his puir lass on page 59

3 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A've thoucht ae ma corpse mair than bein a wife, on page 12

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
othwell: (pyntin at Darnley's corpse) on page 35

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
e dig him up an then hang his corpse. Jist fur the show o the thin
ey dug him up an did hing his corpse. And luk hoo important a man

@ThonJacobite tweeted
emains o' Gordon Broon's deid corpse tellin us that "the UK must u(2021)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Demand a corpse fresh deid on page 41

1 matches

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