Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'raked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

raked	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.9	16	13
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21.9	2	2
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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 raked in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Got up and raked the fire, pat on more paet, on page 43

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
raked the guts oot o the cuithes, p on page 20

1 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
I can as hard as I can. Rigs raked till dir bare; sometimes gadd
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
a-tat-tattin as cannon shells raked the side o the boat. Mrs Cadw on page 41

1 matches

Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
the mither deuk. For days she raked and rummlet. Syne, she gied u on page 19

1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ony food in the fridge so ah raked in the press for sumthing tae on page 41

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
raked oot a auld shaft an fitted it
on. "Oh" says the mannie." I raked this auld three
electrician raked intae his biler suit pooches
3 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
When A hae raked the border ower
1 matches

West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
imerous as a wee moose, an ah raked in the cupboard lookin fur a
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
o cobbles as if they had been raked bi muskets. on page 112

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 70 - The Primped Skull, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
the fusillade o roads that raked the glen,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
fire. On the retreat, we were raked by fire frae a battalion o’
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
but anither curtain. He raked through aw the layers, but hi on page 102

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
whaur she micht be. The polis raked through her gear, took her mo
1 matches