Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

rive	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.8	19	12
ORK - Orkney	19.9	2	1
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	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
WCE - West Central	18.4	4	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	3
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 rive in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the black waas: no clift tae rive at or kneb tae press, but she on page 134
the wrench, the wark. Wi ivry rive her hairt is ruggid furder ap on page 144

2 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
times ta rive, an times ta darn; on page 51

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
o maas rive da lift apairt, on page 65

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
id the fancy brass bell a bit rive on page 15

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
h their feet an turn on ye an rive ye tae smithereens. Speir an on page 15

1 matches

Harper, Edith Soon Awa, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
It’s a sair trachle tae rive the twa thegither.
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
soup. His veesitor haed belly-rive fae aetin berries an cudna be on page 30

1 matches

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
cember's here (an darin ma te rive open the hale thing an aet aa
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
suddenness he noo sterted tae rive on page 34
he, he seemed tae say wi each rive o a page, how daur she delich on page 35
she could bend stainchels and rive the phone book in hauf. Her on page 76
him a damage, fur sure! Ye'll rive his lugs richt aff? on page 147

4 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
bs are ower muckle, they will rive it tae taivers. on page 23

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
rive back a dottie bit o the paper on page 7
hairlie's fingirs sterted tae rive open yin wee corner o the wra on page 34

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a chance tae rive the day frae nicht on page 20
rive the bairns fae their mithers on page 46

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Frae rug an rive ow'r fremmit peths, sair lith on page 30

1 matches