A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

looms Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 0 9.9 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences83 0 1 1 0 3
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of looms in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
anither an the neist election looms sometime soon that further ch on page 11

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
powerin seventy looms an a workforce on page 23

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The windae looms, a sullen grey,
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Kitchener's Memorial looms ower Marwick Bay. on page 37

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an licht shö looms. Sun bracks trowe, da wind on page 42

1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ear bak, he fun yin o tha oul looms in tha attic an gien it tae t on page 8

3 matches

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