Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'takken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

takken	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6	20	13
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.3	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	25.1	5	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	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	56.9	2	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of takken in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s inty special lorries an wir takken them tae approved middens. on page 84

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ck o time. Bang gaed the gun, takken half o Victor’s feathers af
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
his time she wad gae ready by takken a change o claes, some sprays on page 1

2 matches

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
o sair need. Or e'en ma haen takken tae peruisin the gleg clerkin on page 81

1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ys in which yer leid has been takken fae ye. Tell thae stories. Te
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
different eras. Whiles | hae takken pleisure in makin uiss o auld on page viii

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
est in time that kin ainly be takken on page 10
The real risk wis takken by the mannie on page 50

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And haed takken a wumman in Paris that gied h on page 33
Takken on holibags in Rothesay on page 77

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Chances misst or takken, yin bi yin, on page 26

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
me back in the evenin, it wis takken tent o that the milk had disa on page 6

1 matches

wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
ertson an Liz Lochhead. It is takken tent o bi the Scottish Govern
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Kings College..... that I wis takken ae-twa times tae hae a secret(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
An whit a time it takken! on page 20

1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
I hae takken the leeberty o addin a few ex
emorial, an this simmer a’m takken ma son thare tae tell him the
2 matches