Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'stag'

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Use in varieties of Scots

stag	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	16.3	54	21
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	29.4	9	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	31	7	4
NEC - North East Central	688	15	2
SEC - (South) East Central	12.9	5	3
WCE - West Central	13.3	3	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	24.8	4	3
GLA - Glasgow	35.2	7	4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	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 stag 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ied doon wi her airms aroon a stag – an in Ireland a buik o po
ehold gaitherins. There wis a stag bi Landseer an scenes o yowes
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
27. The Tale o Rory the Stag
Rory the stag bedd on the banks o the Cluny
DIDNA ken, wis that Rory the stag frae Braemar hid a secret wis
t wish. Far doon in his broon stag ’s hairt, he’d aywis winti
fowk foregaithered, Rory the stag creepit nearer than ordnar. T
7 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
iiginxt furst a teeger then a stag neist a bear nou a puggie hin on page 3

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
lowed a line, that micht be a stag, or a hoosie, or fowk, jist f on page 51

2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
hit ah saw wis as real as yon stag ’s heid.” replied Erchie.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e young loons fae last nights stag doo. Told him to buck up his (2016)
e or fan a the bam pots fae a stag / hen come in fit is affa reg(2018)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
erynitian Hart. Yon hart is a stag wi gowden antlers that belang on page 14
teyed still as a stookie. The stag wis busy guzzlin doon the cle on page 15
hem. Gonnae gie's a len o yir stag?" on page 16
Hercules papped the stag wi the gowden antlers on his on page 17

14 matches

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
the burn aside ye aince had a stag by it, or there wis an adder
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The Stag on page 11

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
the floozie frae the Lion and Stag And made her an honest woman. on page 16

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Glen Eagle (Alan Steele), the Stag (Stewart Cairns) that's nivve
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
narrae path, he cums athort a stag winnin doun. Naither Duncan n
doun. Naither Duncan nor the stag can turn back. Thai ir lockit
fower hours o face-doun, the stag cums forrart. Duncan, wha luv
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
larly wi the notorious hen an stag pairties that city tourist de on page 90

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
or tae a young stag. on page 4
like a gazelle or young stag on page 5

2 matches

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ert in his een! The michtiest stag o the forest luikit shilpit a on page 12

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
let saftly, seein hissel as a stag in rut, pursuin terrified fem
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
r late twinties, looks like a stag do. on page 9
'Stag do, aye?' ah say tae diffuse on page 11

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
The stag-bells ring, on page 35
diwork haird as the bite ae a stag on page 36

2 matches

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
a picture ae a mountain an a stag at the top. Inside, there's n on page 13

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
boay but they’re away tae a stag weekend in Benidorm so cannae
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
deer. A red deer ah think, a stag though. A huge fuckin thing w
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Some stag ti kill, ech, ma loun? on page 32

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ience – wi The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil in 1
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
lys Blood, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Jac (2019) twitter link