Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ordeal	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.8	2.5	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	6	5	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	5	1

Occurrences of ordeal in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e relieved tae be spared that ordeal, an alang wi big Dauvit, fell on page 53

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
midmaist oan the left. Whitna ordeal did Skaldie thole? Nae wurd g on page 10

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
y, and then it becomes a hale ordeal. Ahm daein us baith a favour. on page 10

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And that ordeal of the train To the city hosp on page 54

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
elt responsible for the whole ordeal.
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
up. Noo, eis cood be anither ordeal cus Alek, kint fyne eit a wei on page 30

1 matches