A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'humans'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of humans in Corpus

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
it wis twartree days afore da humans wir back. Een o dem wis spaek
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Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ne place for trows as weel as humans?
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Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
tae mak up for hit bi lendin humans a hand. Hoosewark, gairdenin,
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Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
n she learns A’m been among humans. So tae aese her shargs I wid
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Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
run ower a broo when I heard humans. I med aabody hoid. I hed a s
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Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
s. Da risin price o fuel sent humans back ontae da paet hill. Mutt
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Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
gularly. Dis wis unheard o by humans an trows in Shetland at da ti
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Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
m gittin far ower familiar wi humans an dir wyes. “A traditional
“Du should be blate aroond humans,” she says. Me, blate? Hiv
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
in streams and lochs to lure humans. When folk would try and ride(2019)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ing. Birds wad hae ruled ower humans frae early times, the Javans
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Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Fan ah humans are deid and their culture is
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
s wi Kevin,” she thocht. “Humans michtna be allowed tae watter
ye nae,” quo Angus, “that humans wad ken that naethin comes ba
ae ee fixed on the hunners o humans
humans say it.”
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Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
for ony humans, superfluous tae requirements on page 3
far aa humans were cast in black, reid, yal on page 19

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Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
tae share oor warld wi, than humans wad anely hae fower year afor
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
�This place was never fit for humans. The land was full of clay fr
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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
erstood somethin aboot him us humans couldnae.' on page 118

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(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
God: Whit are ye humans up tae noo?
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ns are kilt by hyenas than by humans (in fact lions kill mair lion
equivalent o a haun shake for humans.
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Dundee

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ty tae chynge its ain sel, we humans hae juist as muckle agency in
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
h I'd known there were modern humans here before I let anybody fly
sna that different fae modren humans. It wad been impossible tae s
sna that different fae modren humans. It wad been impossible tae s
e refinet nastiness that only humans is capable o.
m the maya that haunts modern humans, that illusion of an abiding,
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Glasgow

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
r a'thing we want an' need as humans. When we straighten oot wur h on page

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
the Yird's sae like oor Moon humans wad stot aboot. An Mercury ha
the auld Romantic nories that humans held in lang fernyears anent
r syne the war some 5 million humans on the Yird – that's as mon
wis the first tae set actual humans doun on the Moon. Neil Armstr
The hinmaist landing that set humans doun on the Moon (at least, t
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
mak mention that the notion o humans fleein throu the air wis some
r fairies that used tae steal humans awa til anither warld for a d
stit throu or in the air that humans didna commonly see or ken. He
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ie benefeicial ongauns atween humans an the lave o the biosphere.
pits ower mukkil wecht on us humans, an we loss mind at we ir per
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
rely on humans
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Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
us as individuals or even as humans wi’ herts an’ souls, but
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
Never done telling weans that humans (when they die) do NOT morph (2020)