A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

locally Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.4 5 3 0 0 41.3 9.7
Number of occurrences1810 2 0 0 4 2
Number of authors11 6 2 2 1

Occurrences of locally 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
tes better than braw cos it's locally smoked, on page 77

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
because o the wark available locally. The richt puir sowels that t on page 12
r Pawton as it wis pronoonced locally - ran riot up front wi a whe on page 23

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ty: Fifiepapple, as we cry it locally. I speir him: 'Up there?' Sae on page 77

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
end it in their ain area, sic locally electit fowk arenae likely ta on page 29
pments that spreid the wealth locally an no mair o the vast interna on page 91

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Kirkton o Strathmarnne, kennt locally as Brigfoot. On the wey there on page 77

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
an if it isnae possible locally on page 25

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
t's aw the mair braw cos it's locally smoked,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
sh toon, Fraserburgh, is kent locally as The Broch anaw).
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Aat's a gweed bit o locally-produced beef, Elspeth," said on page 28

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ie wiz famed for. It wiz said locally that she could tak a corp bac
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
d o Borth’ick Waitter (kent locally is the Back Waitter) is ae he
Borth’ickbraehaugh, kent locally is the Cement Cottages. The a
2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
hdouglasscot Got tae help oot locally an aften, braw thocht an easy(2020) search twitter
f o the veelage an weel kennt locally as yon.(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@Ultach1014 Locally we call a pipe a stroop. 'tho (2021) twitter link
@Ultach1014 Locally we call a pipe a stroop. 'tho(2021) search twitter