A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'granite'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of granite in Corpus

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
e margin o Eday Soond, like a granite boulder. Migrant goldcrests f
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Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
minates the mezzanine, like a granite erratic dropped fae a glacier
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Shetland

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cht bounces aff sparklin grey granite; feet clatter on pavements - on page 43

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
offs an nibbery in their fine granite hooses. Frae his fleet o cair
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
temple –sax million tons o granite ower the centuries, straikit
ae yon quarry's intimmers – granite that glistered like siller sh
owe wi fireflauchts o quartz; granite that cud withstaun aathin fra
is byordnar close tae the the granite quaich. A bridle path frae th
doon, doon drappit the riven, granite physog o the auld quarry. The
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Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
She wiz busy scrubbin the big granite steps in front o the skweelho
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Harper, Edith Soon Awa, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
at sits in ma hert like a granite stane.
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Trip tae the granite city Art Gallery with my doch (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
saving the Granite City on page 8
yer fish, yer granite and coal, on page 22
Like the granite steps on page 25
in the darkest o granite if ye jist let it. Ps on page 27

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
30s an 40s. The 212 bronze an granite sculpturs that live in 'Frogn on page 16

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
amidst the grey granite on page 8

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
’. Rubislaw wis the deepest granite quarry in Europe, an there wi
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Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
ee he steppit across the roch granite slabs o the slip at the herbo
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General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
r backyard a dull slab o grey granite. Suddenly a wee dug appeared on page 42

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Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - Efter the war memorial at Cowdry Hall, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
aneath feldspar skies, twa granite eens tak tent. canny an silve on page 61

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Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
great granite slabs laid oot like cobbles on page 39
mair siccar, safe in aa its granite strenth. on page 40

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ason tae set up a heidsteen o granite, wi their names on't. 'I dinn on page 51

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
a traivel agent's wi a muckle granite entrance. "This wis Henderson
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
v jist been unfollowed by the granite city oan twitter - thank fec (2021) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Aiberdeen, ‘Homage to Grey Granite’ an ‘I Seek A City’ ir
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Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
eamt it tae the Sooth African granite that hauds it up. At the entr
. Leuk at Sooth Africa, whase granite mashles throu oor pairlament
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Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
d ahin high wa’s o slate an granite – backs chokit wi snaa thes
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Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The thick slabs ay granite that comprise the stairs meet
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
is comprised ay black an grey granite. Above the doorway is the sig
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General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
yin hooses o the derkest reid granite, on page 27

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
an argufied him belangin the granite city. At the hinnerend, the d on page 38

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Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
grey as granite on page 44

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
jimp! The war a tid whan the granite ceitie o Aiberdeen wes regair on page 119
is a novella. Wi its cobbles, granite hooses, thrangit slum tenemen on page 120

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Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
the "quadrangle" and the dour granite waas o the main schuil glower on page 37

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Thom, Williamina Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
pit up in her memory, made o granite, an placed whaur her hoose yi
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Gibbon fae the Mearns in Grey Granite (1934): ‘She’ll be able t
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Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
een: oil bonanza, fishin, the Granite City – the blin are immune
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)