Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'foam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

foam	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.2	17	15
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	13.1	4	3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21.9	2	2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	2
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 foam in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
atchful, still, ower wave and foam on page 48

1 matches

Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
xford blue wi cotton coloured foam , aggressively blashin in my f
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
! I imagine it lik a creamola foam ice cream float(2018)

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
it rives at him an garrs him foam at e moo an keeps on malagaro on page 96

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
vil’s Peatstack in a mash o foam near hittin the tap o’t. It
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ed like hundog’s pyokes and foam fleein fae his mooth and fae
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
r a guid shave wi a brush and foam. Nippy but feelin rare. https(2019)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
y tae get yer ain face on the foam tap o yer pint! on page 8

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
e shorie tae waatch the waves foam and fizz tae pass the time.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
spume and foam as fallen blossom on page 87

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
yin ae they big rid and white foam finger hings. Ken, like the y on page 100

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ckin fawn apart an the fuckin foam's aw pure comin ootae the cus on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
me bad kind of sound-proofing foam , and tech bloke fir one of th
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ecisely, the wee bit ay white foam that’s formin roon the side
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
When foam erupts fae the bottle, Maw sh on page 13

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
DavidGHFrost Take the Cremola Foam if you can afford it and squa(2020)