A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'strands'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strandsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of strands in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
exhaust itsel on Scotland’s strands wis minor indeed. Than mair n
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
nd the wind whit poued at the strands o her hair, suithed her. on page 1

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
hair ridin on the sunset like strands o clood abuin the west. Still on page ix
ye mistress and tae kiss the strands o yer clean gleam o hair. Tha on page x

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ft ay his barnet stuck in wet strands tae his heid. The grey sweats
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
oer an sighs, blawin the wee strands ay hair that hing doon at the
back, twirlin wan ay the wee strands ay hair roon her finger. Yeâ€
2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
fa. We hae seen three lively strands o pleyscrievin in the mid-twe on page 39

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
The strands of hair stood oot roon ma hei
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
whaur strands yince thrangit wi the fish on page 31
y caur-parks machair bi coral strands. on page 43
aw love - hills abuin, lang strands ablo on page 57

3 matches

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