A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'songs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
songsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.35437
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21 16 11
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 65.6 1 1
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 songs 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A singer sang them twa-three songs tae gie wir legs a rest on page 4

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fur da news, an da wadder, an Songs a Praise on a Sunday. Dat wis on page 5

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
day, I'll sing a wheen o thon songs tae the bairns at scweel. Nae on page 37

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
antelle says they're nae jist songs - they tell a story." on page 56

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
an is aboot tae download some songs ontae his version i' the aye (2014)
olinclyne is the singer whose songs feature in my novel, The Drum(2016)
o wi muckle i' Doric jokes an songs then get yer tickets tae @Inv(2016)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
d a cover version o een o her songs eence.(2019)

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
a happy wi imsel an sing daft songs till her mither, or he'd be i on page 15
himsel neen the less. He sung songs that her mither said he shoul on page 17

2 matches

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
e fae kennin aa the wirds tae songs aa hate on page 33

1 matches

Wheeler, Leslie Brockit, the Ferm Toon Cat, (Grampian Regional Council 2000) Doric, weans
in the shoutin, singin aa the songs - even fan he didna ken the
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Nae rude songs at Pittodrie the day(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ng awa. still sing twa o' his songs fan I'm on at the Fittie Bar (2016)
ended up deen a’yon Scottish songs wee ma accordion in the bar l(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
y. Een o the maist underrated songs ivver IMO. https://t.co/CO0Mu(2020)

(South) East Central

Hawkins, Rudi None Shall Rest Easy, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central - Stirling, prose
end o winter an we sang auld songs tae pass the time. Songs ‘b
tae pass the time. Songs ‘boot soldiers aff tae war
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ls. It’ll jist be the shite songs oan oaffur that are sendin hi
1 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
e wuid fill the daurkness wae songs fae Top o The Pops, lik Bill, on page 12

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
r aw day, pure singin aw thir songs an couldnae concentrate on ma on page 159
TIGER. They sang aw thir best songs: Stooshie, Shout Ootz, Ma Wee on page 160

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
aicont big sectioun ir cawed 'Songs: Adapted to the Times'. The f on page 140

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e habit o singin contemporary songs takkin the mick oot o Napoleo on page 91

1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
is place, especially thi auld songs oan thi juke boax, yi sing al
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Songs o' freedom tae sustain us,
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
steamin back tae back country songs breaks, an I leave ma four ca on page 3

5 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the two ay them singin rebel songs efter multiple joints an the
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
rocked by their boughs, songs in their whisper on page 51

1 matches

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
thology of North East Poetry, Songs an Prose. on page 4

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
that said "I don't like these songs, they make my heart big and m on page 11

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
hu Ci in the Penguin Classic "Songs of the South". on page 33

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
's Ancient and Modern Scotish Songs, and James Johnson's Scottish on page 69

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Ah Wis Wee: Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes, Ewan McVicar, Bir on page 129

1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
traditional storytelling and songs”. Sae we’re telt naebodie
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
trie’s wummin sang such sad songs sae sweetly aboot her loast m
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
d be said fer a lot o popular songs. Roads by Portishead, Teardro(2020)
topus The 80s wis littered wi songs aboot nuclear war. We aa thoc(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
, ye can listen tae a wheen o songs wi Scots here: https://t.co/d (2020) twitter link
there is the Bookbug app, wi songs an rhymes in Scots: https://t (2020) twitter link
yer school wi oor 'Scotland's songs' resource: https://t.co/XmkGI (2019) twitter link
the @scottishbktrust Bookbug songs on their website? Click here (2018) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
The only motherwell songs a know are from the mccall er (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
see oot the year wi great songs fae great Skecklers see in th on page 77

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
easure trove o auld poems and songs. She's taught me so much. So (2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
k wi loud refrain; Sing bawdy songs an sangs 0 pain, The tappin s on page 59

1 matches

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