A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

faeries Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 2 13.3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences144 9 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of faeries in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nor ventures wi faeries on page 47
mones an gowkflooers hame tae faeries in the daurklin oors, on page 77

2 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
faeries and broonies, on page 32

1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
mug in the telling. Still the faeries gied her the idea – no, the
1 matches

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
should aye be polite tae the faeries as he walkit bye. He should a on page 84

9 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
cillybirder Aye, the Stronsay faeries(2020) search twitter