Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

glances	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.3	4.5	1.5	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	11	9	1	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	9	7	1	1

Occurrences of glances 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

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ed ye oot fae the get-go. Sly glances passed atween folk. Strangers on page 76

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
The hushed whispers n glances aw start tae make sense. A gi on page 30
McGiver glances at me. He gees me this look l on page 54

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Aldo's eyes and _ the worryin glances ah wis gittin fae Craig ah co on page 74

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
epskins, drawin a few admirin glances fae the lairdies' wives as he on page 87

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ebody spoke but mony were the glances shot in his direction as he s
1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
The three exchynged knowin glances.
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lously smuired frae the sherp glances and lang tungs o the toun. Th
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Bill an Beatrice exchynged glances. Thir fowk wis here for tae s
1 matches

Doric

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
of the bar in order to sneak glances at Erchie's companion, then s
1 matches

Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
came anither day when luving glances turned away - on page 18

1 matches