A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fallen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fallenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12719
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 140.7 4 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fallen in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
oving females' and they'd aal fallen foul o some 'bitch'. on page 42

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The craft o buildan fallen tae the eldest, as roond and on page 95

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
y clouds are those which have fallen doon oot o the sky. https://t(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"A winder how many miles A've fallen by iss time?" she sade oot lo on page 9
t idea wis at she hed somehow fallen intill e sea, "an in at case on page 19
wi e burds an animals at hed fallen intill id: air were a Duck an on page 22
id wis joost possible id hed fallen intill a cucumber frame, or s on page 34

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
permission o’t tae tak some fallen branches fae it. Then she cra
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
t Yow, Female sheep which has fallen over onto her back and canna (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
spume and foam as fallen blossom on page 87

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d deaths oan the jockey ae ma fallen hoarse, when ah hear this voi on page 20
ties oan the joackey ae their fallen hoarse. Or, oan some bottle m on page 27
ae find the location ae their fallen joackey's hoose oan google ma on page 32

3 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
said. "Ah'm a romantic. Ah've fallen in luve wi it. Please let me on page 196

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
his banes. Yin o his een his fallen oot and bluid wis aw over his
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
per English". You my son have fallen for their propaganda! You are (2022) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
up. Everybody sits doon on a fallen tree n seems tae slow doon. W on page 48

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Tropfen fallen langsam in die Tiefen. on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
die scuff our way through the fallen ones, as wee birds follow eac on page 3

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Land o Fallen Empires on page 76

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Here the first snow had fallen on page 91

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
fallen efter him, is hei ran doon th
1 matches

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
e Day, bit of course it's the fallen in a' conflict that oo rememb
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
fallen boulders. We dreeped doon a b
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
arrival. A new-boarn wean, a fallen angel, an a comatose nun. Hau
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
mmer's gone, an all the roses fallen." Maisie held oot a slice o b on page 11

1 matches

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