A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chess Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences52 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2 1

Occurrences of chess in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Orkney. Gin it wis a gemme o chess, Olaf makit his ain neist muv on page 14

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
Brods aipen, chess up, wi a dunch an a bang.
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Cheetie, can you play at chess? Nou, dinna smirkle, my wee d on page 13
merkit out jist like a muckle chess-brod!" Ailice said at lest. " on page 31
. "It's a wappin-gryte gemm o chess at's gettin played aa ower th on page 32

3 matches

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