Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'deadly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

deadly	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	15
ORK - Orkney	19.9	2	2
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.3	3	2
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	15.4	3	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	3
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)	65.6	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	20	2	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of deadly in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
vast country darkness, an the deadly ambush. on page 27

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Tae a deadly tune on page 158

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
...the deadly clarity of this 'seeing of a on page 19

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hin. But ah wis bein serious, deadly fuckin serious. on page 58
ked up. Or, in Aldo's case, a deadly combination ae baith. Efter h on page 101

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
for why - they sinned a deadly sin.
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ects today! Well I gave it qa deadly swot with the paper that am w on page 123

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n it went, wi the o1m watchin deadly silent. Richt thru their shif on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
"Myths and legends, the deadly plague epidemic, and a famous on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
n though ah know Dolly's bein deadly serious. on page 22

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
suit. Losin a trainer kin be deadly. Taz reaches us n the crowd b on page 17
nes in playin Tupac n Big L, 'Deadly Combination: Am no smokin any on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mine's a deadly thrust o pouer on page 56

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Sloth, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
This twa-taed deadly sin has tae be
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
r sayin: "Due tae the ongoin, deadly Covid 19 pandemic, NAEBODY is(2021)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
er goat ait strike tha deadly blow on page 49

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
loudhailer to Harris and Ruth Deadly Backwards(2017)
nmacairt Jaysis, your looking deadly in that thon video!(2020)