Online Database of Scots Texts Available

It's called SCOTS, and it stands for Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. It includes about 400 texts from Scots to Scottish English. It was assembled by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and it's available at http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ .

The site is searchable by several different factors, including word (of course), author, gender, area of birth or residence, and year composed. A search for "richt" found 112 results, with results listing title, author, and multimedia.

I took a look at Daft Jackie ("Folk kent for miles aboot that Duncan Dungarroch wisnae hauf as bricht as the beer he brewed.") The text is presented complete, with the word for which you searched highlighted. It looks like most of these writings are fairly short.

There were some items which were transcriptions and were marked with "audio" in the multimedia portion of the search results. Each of the lines on these transcriptions were clickable, but I wasn't able to generate any audio from them, even viewing them in Internet Explorer. Perhaps you will have better luck than me.

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