A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contraptions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of contraptions in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d aw ower the dreidsomelookin contraptions. "Noo, if we're aw - duin her on page 91

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r auntie thocht them unchancy contraptions. No lang afore, a lad fae the
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
then, an seen some gey weird contraptions traivellin throu the sky. An
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
In yin o' them contraptions on page 39

1 matches

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