Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gormless	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	3	0	0	5.8	0	8.9
Number of occurrences	9	6	0	0	1	0	2
Number of authors	8	5			1		2

Occurrences of gormless 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
screen. Big gormless grin stuck oan his mush. An m on page 1

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Nae Tae Be Taein, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
y Chinese ye ken, thay're nae gormless, on page 41

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye gormless gosling, whaur's yer sense?
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in like a pack ay cairds. His gormless pal couldnae process whit he
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a manager that stands like a gormless statue oan the touchline - g (2020) twitter link
hotspots - that way awe this gormless society would have to learn t (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
Dirs gormless fisses, dunnoo tyeen whut im
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A gormless gansh on page 52

1 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
daesnae heed thaim ïs laik a gormless man that bigged hïs hoose on on page 8

1 matches