Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

streams	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	11.7	13.9	1.5	0	5.8	10.3	4.8
Number of occurrences	39	28	1	0	1	1	1
Number of authors	9	4	1		1	1	1

Occurrences of streams in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t drew oan his fag, blew thin streams ae smoke oot ower the road. S on page 1

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Wee streams, paths, forests. Ah love that on page 3

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
doon there, in Phrygia, whase streams wind ae wey an then anither.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
0 @SkySports with 6 free live streams on offer - not another 1 tha (2020) twitter link
@ashwilsonauthor live streams everywhere n a powerfull comp (2021) twitter link
for years - plenty free live streams m8 (2020) twitter link
ilmour alas its on other live streams lol (2021) twitter link
fully they will all b on live streams so that grassroots fans can t (2021) twitter link
and 18 other occurrences.

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
There’s streams o’ cars gyan nose ti tail
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tland's kelpie) would wait in streams and lochs to lure humans. Whe(2019) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
an shallae streams ir daibelt
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
terin hir lungs in crystallie streams o sang as a dim licht flicker on page 34

1 matches