A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example sonsie

The word 'fall'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fallOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.65531
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 246.1 7 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 3
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 8
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) 131.2 2 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fall in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ark in here. A'm sore fae the fall when they threw me fae above on page 20

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
sayeen - pride comes afore a fall. on page 7
Even things that move fall foul o "Nana's peedie doll" on page 14
t yer feet and then you widna fall. on page 24

3 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
wis so tired and grateful tae fall intae a warm bed and jist clo on page 85

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
though barometers fall on page 93

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
mind has mountains; cliffs of fall (GM Hopkins) on page 29

1 matches

Williamson, Christie Shaetlan an compoonds a da richt, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, blog
the folk in question suddenly fall back on the “Ah, but all my
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ll hersel. "Efter such a beeg fall, A'll think nothin o tumblan on page 9
o sticks an dry leaves, an e fall wis oer. on page 10
she heard a peedy shriek an a fall, an a crash o broken gless, f on page 34
-" when his eye happened till fall on Alice, as she stood watcha on page 75
ot till sea. So they hed till fall a long way. So they got their on page 98

7 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ever had - some people even fall asleep. I'll just pop out and on page 82

1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
yi safe nae matter fit, if yi fall il iways pick yi up - fan a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
bi the Japanese Airmy aat the fall o Singapore. He wis a brave #(2020)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Sunday 18 Temp - 1/4 Rain fall 6/16
Wednesday 21 Temp - 2/1 rain fall 6/16
Friday 27 Temp 0/10 Rain fall 5/16
3 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
t aff a lift at level one, ye fall tae the grund? Epples an eppl(2020)

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
like they were willing me tae fall flat oan ma on page 7

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
the eldritch cavern under Yad-fall, on page 63

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
it maks a gey wheen o ma hair fall oot, so it's onybody's guess on page 58

1 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
O what a fall was there, my countrymen. on page 133

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
blue eyes that yi could just fall intae an droon. Murray's nine on page 75
kin an her hair is startin to fall out. A think she might be ano on page 146

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
reat profits. By the time the fall had come aroun there were reg on page 33
ve tasks fer his boss. In the fall o the year that the merchant on page 34
'If the dumbfuck who let this fall ain't ownin up ye're all goin on page 53

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e-lapsarian world, before the Fall of Man. As my Grannie would h
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
macing at the bitterness, and fall back tae the other side a the
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
d enough tae say suhin back n fall intae their roles as replacem on page 28
navy-blue sky, n the bombers fall like embers fae a campfire, m on page 31
and on ma shoulder n A nearly fall backwards intae the arms behi on page 43

3 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
tle on tae the table and some fall tae the flair. on page 14

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
That fall outside
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
watching his breath rise and fall in the grey moonlicht. on page 3

5 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c. 1872 on page 119

1 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
chin ihm breathe, tha rise an fall ay his chest. It's broad, ehs
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
er, bruised all over from the fall doon the brae, and a wounded
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
r, idiom and vocabulary (e.g. fall/autumn, vacation/holiday, lin
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
haha me and you are going tae fall oot mcbride!!(2014)

@fourmenterian tweeted
shoogly peg, it'll be in free fall(2016)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
rs007 Dinnae get blootered an fall in the sea ya bampot! (2022) twitter link
dinnae get pure blootered an fall oan yer coupon ya dafty! (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
n pruchry brake befaire nicht fall. on page 19
Pride ait cometh befare a fall on page 46

2 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
wn box tied up wi string, tae fall aff, sure it had nae hope,
1 matches

Web Analytics