Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'swallow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

swallow	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21	2	2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.6	3	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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)	58.1	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 swallow 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.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d id at last, an managed till swallow a morsel o e left-han bit. on page 49

1 matches

Aberdeen

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
kit intil Henryson's Preichin Swallow. on page 138

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
. Watched the sea rise up and swallow it whole. There’s nothing u
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae painkillers daring me tae swallow a few ae thum, and then it wi on page 24

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
sh frae Fife, wi his poem The Swallow . It taen the form o 8, 3 lin
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e does, as if he’s going to swallow you, and he went on, ‘Thoo
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
snae reply fir a mo’, so ah swallow and repeat his name —Si, ah
g backward ontae the sofa. Ah swallow him doon, grimacing at the bi
2 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
an I hae wings noo, like that swallow high, on page 107

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Ain swallow aip thon wunter drear, on page 24

1 matches