Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hostage	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.8	2.5	0	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	6	5	0	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	5		1

Occurrences of hostage 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
tae no log oan while no held hostage bi the wather, interwab an vi on page 77

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Paul an Erlend, he sent them hostage back tae Norrowa. Bit thon's on page 14

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Held hostage on page 27

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Mairower, the lines ‘As hostage in ȝour hand’ and ‘As pl
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
EKEND . FUCKING BELLEND. Held hostage? Fucking grow up you cockwomb(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
makan yir hert a hostage tae fortune, on page 123

1 matches