A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

runaway Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of runaway in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
g she had aince knockit oot a runaway horse in the High Street wi a on page 100

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
bes e’en somethin aboot yer runaway pal.”
bes e’en somethin aboot yer runaway pal.”
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Crichton waited while the runaway climbed up the river-bank the

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
on intae new areas his been a runaway success. Orkney populated abo(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Just heard Slade’s Run Runaway fir da first time since I pla (2021) twitter link