Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

clocked	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	10	6.2	1.5	19.9	0	10.3	70.8
Number of occurrences	32	12	1	2	0	1	16
Number of authors	13	8	1	1		1	2

Occurrences of clocked in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
e cam hame and naebody'd even clocked he'd been awa. But ither time on page 17

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ure by the way. When he first clocked them, he must've thought he w on page 27

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
n the back ae the club, huvin clocked the pigmobile. Waitin tae see on page 1

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
bums, STRAMASH and BY THE WAY clocked up over a million sales each. on page 169

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ail aff when ah realise she's clocked ma poem. on page 53

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
nce tae see if ony o them had clocked that sotnethin wisnae quite r on page 142

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
A fox clocked the moose an the moose looked on page 3
Anen an owl clocked the moose, and the moose look on page 7
Anen a snake clocked the moose, an the moose looke on page 11

3 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
An clocked two giant peepers. Is this th on page 14

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Ah fuckin knew that when ah clocked ye at the door. Yer his spitt
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
side the hoose where ah first clocked them.
1 matches

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Snog, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
kint fine if ony o oor peers clocked twa quines sharin a snog, we' on page 53

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the onset is clocked on page 7

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
eyed an shifty, I stryte awey clocked on page 7

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Ah passed b' heis gairden, an clocked, wi yin eye, on page 104

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
k caa McBane's skull, wha has clocked inaboot thon oul dyke for lan on page 8
Sae there he was, clocked in tha glaur, glowerin doon a on page 13
tae investigate. He foond him clocked on tha bed gurnin his een oot on page 14
Clocked in thon teemin rain. on page 18
A gaed back tae tha hoose, clocked on ma arse, on page 22
Also on pages 26, 31, 35, 38, 54
10 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
an made Newton (Newtownards), clocked on the oxster o the Airds Pen
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
Aa their freends clocked ahint them gulderin at yin an (2014) twitter link
I'm clocked forenent my lum wi the wirele (2015) twitter link
Mrs Gellick clocked forenenst the TV wi her twa c (2016) twitter link
e Mercat Cross in Newtown hae clocked thonder for a quare while - (2014) twitter link
e nicht: aabody at Windsor or clocked by the wireless for tae see c (2015) twitter link