A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'northern'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of northern in Corpus

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
e o riches spread beneath the northern sky. It’s possible for a vi
cal-striped lighthoose in the northern hemisphere, we gaither groatt
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Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
s plain is the breid basket o northern Italy. It’s whar the fermer
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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
land’. But ken and kent are northern verbs, used throughout Scandi
Whar ither than in the Northern Isles wid ye get proper, auth
ows and the Scots used in the Northern Isles are much more numerous
ey, or the acceptability o ‘Northern’ accents within mainstream
wer tae hear some pretty good Northern Isles Scots in this mainstrea
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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
t we dinna spik Gaelic in the Northern Isles, among ither things!(2021)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Immer güs (Great northern diver) fae da Fetlar ferry #b(2015)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ng Houdini? Chips n gravy tae Northern fur me!(2016)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
e herd mi spikk he remixed in Northern Lights into i Bluebell Polka.(2020)

Aberdeen

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
An John Buchan's Northern Muse" - on page 138

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Bid a brig atween Scotland n Northern Ireland th say ?? jist look h(2019)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
steerers in baith Scotland an Northern Ireland haes been haein words
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
accoont o life for miners in northern France an thair fecht, while
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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
nce free. Awbody likes a guid Northern-English 'accent', eh? It's wa
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
THE crack comin oot o Northern Ireland threaps that, as pair
evive the devolved Assembly o Northern Ireland, it wis greed tae mak
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
A cooling breeze frae the Northern hills telt him that the rains
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
Scots can be heard on the BBC Northern Ireland wab-steid an aw sae w
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
plenty games on today in the northern alliance league div 2 - awe (2020) twitter link

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
nuar: in some airts a dance o northern lichts, but in maist places,
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Dundee

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
re Section wadna check wi the Northern.
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
urately be described as early northern Middle English: Scholars of S on page 15

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nary effort, this time in the Northern Caucasus that's stull a debat on page 11

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Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
Northern Lanarkshire wather's spittin on page 107

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
˜originally Scots and perhaps Northern English’ is cosie. The Scot
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Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
sh dialects uises it, an some Northern Scots anes disna (I dinna spe
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
agi, whae bidit in modern-dey northern and eastern Scotland aboot 1,
This means that, oot-through northern and eastern Scotland, people
settlement taen place in the Northern and Western Isles o Scotland
le territory, specifically in northern and eastern Scotland, includi
he University o Aiberdeen’s Northern Picts Project a wee follae on
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McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
cht we see the PASOKification northern English Labour, as we did wi
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
rtably held their saets i the Northern Isles, demonstratin that the
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
affinity atween Scots and its northern neebour tongues – is a freq
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
an. Its roots gang back tae a northern dialect o Auld English/Anglo-
sic as the north-east and the Northern Isles. It is less kenably str
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@IshbelMcF tweeted
t the linguistic situation in Northern Ireland (WHA DISNAE?), my @Sc(2019)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ly recommend the Dolomites in northern Italy. In summer weather hot (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Northern Ireland tae lock doon for a m(2020)

South East (Borders)

South West (Galloway)

East Antrim (Larne)

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
s are is a bad ambassador for Northern Ireland ??(2020)