Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bruises	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3	2.5	7.4	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	10	5	5	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	4	3

Occurrences of bruises 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.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e. But then thur's Jock. They bruises huvnae cleart up yit. I dinna on page 1

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A ken it feels lit bruises bloomin in ablow yer skin, on page 21
nd aw she minds ae you is the bruises an fear; on page 83

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
As she rubbit awa the bruises in private later, she thocht
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
up. And it wisnae jist aw the bruises oan his puss, likes. His over
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Covert in bruises, black an blue on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
p o her cousin's breist been, bruises that luikit like thoomb prein
peir foo Isie hid come bi yon bruises, far her breistbeen jyned the
er ma an Meg Ramsay aboot the bruises she'd seen on Isie's neck in
3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ma bruises – leuk! leuk! Peggy! Yir na
1 matches