A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example sonsie

The word 'snaws'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snawsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6209
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 2
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 snaws in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
an keep yer erse warm when it snaws.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Snell Winter's snaws are fled, leaves oan the shaw on page 216

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Winter's snaws depairt, an the green shoots on page 16
Snell Winters snaws are fled, leaves oan the shaw on page 149

2 matches

Edinburgh

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
an sleepit anaith the Wunter snaws ower the great reid trees. on page 12

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Mony snaws retour oan thair mony wunds; on page 14

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ter his sheep frae the winter snaws. on page 50
That winter, the furst snaws fell in November, an the last on page 56

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Winter’s snaws depairt, an the green shoots
1 matches

General Central

Bleiman, David Lallans 102 - The Snaws o Yestreen, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
The Snaws o Yestreen on page 28
whaur are the snaws o lang afore? on page 29

4 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
The mair it snaws on page 1
is hoo it sterts. The mair it snaws, tiddely pom - ' on page 4
"Did ye no say snaws?" on page 5

4 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ntid: the mair haws, the mair snaws, a gey wee gairden that fir b on page 134

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
eiges d’antan? Whaur are the snaws o yesteryear?(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah'm the woolly pleuch o the snaws. on page 65

1 matches

Web Analytics