A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

melody Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4.5 0 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences129 0 0 2 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of melody in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ectly in tune boax, juist the melody, straight, solid as a rock, a on page 3

5 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
a viola sings a Haydn melody. on page 25

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ma hoarse, Melody Park, is caught oaff the pace on page 36

1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
e hud heard but the unearthly melody still pranced aboot in her he
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
b's poem The End O't, pit tae melody by Sandy Stanage. Accompanied(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2.3 Prosody: Da melody an rhythm o Shaetlan on page 28

2 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Amongst the ruins their melody plays on page 22

1 matches

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