A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blethered Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 5.3 6.4 9.9 0 32.8 4.4
Number of occurrences1910 4 1 0 3 1
Number of authors14 6 4 1 2 1

Occurrences of blethered in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
seat apairt at the bar as she blethered tae Wee Josie oer a drink, le on page 77
een smilin and noddin as ye's blethered at the purvey, pickin at the on page 80

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ie wi her, and the twa o them blethered thegether mair or less like e on page 224

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
* He blethered so quickly A couldnae hear hi on page 25

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
low heat", The three orphans blethered awa aboot their bonniest memo on page 44
d a guid deal o time. As they blethered, they mixed and tastit the ch on page 45
ottier and tottier bits, they blethered aboot the things that they co on page 58

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Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
They blethered and played gemmes, but twa o on page 73

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Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
e brae, whyles the wattir aye blethered awaw til him, a blabberin par
1 matches

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
the auld man. Blair an Donald blethered awa fur ower an hour, the hos on page 77

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
at he kent ma fae somewye. He blethered an newsed tull ma een glazed on page 32

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
' sic like ye've been getting blethered at ye!”
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ve reports in castellano, but blethered in Cali dialect, usin words l (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
Hyslop blethered aboot growan up doon sooth wi
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Hei shiftied alang as ei blethered, an th Dormoose went efter im on page 73
b' aw day aboot eet!", an hei blethered oan wi these words: on page 93

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@StuartPoet tweeted
y Alan, believe me, it's bein blethered aboot up by. The gas is order(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
e haed taked o earlier. Conor blethered wi pleesure. Gerald jined in.
1 matches

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