A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dirs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 0 0 0 162.7 0 0
Number of occurrences280 0 0 28 0 0
Number of authors10 10

Occurrences of dirs in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
m said dat da livin bairn wis dirs. Solomon lookit at dem fir a on page 25

1 matches

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
Nivvir leet. Dirs wadderheads i de aest; sang i on page 66

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ership, as in Hit's mine/yirs/dirs. Dey come on page 57

2 matches

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
Dirs gormless fisses, dunnoo tyeen
I rowl me Rs, dirs a laughter ootbrak,
Dirs nitheen rang we you ur du wye
3 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
Spaekin o grind, dirs lots o grinds aa ower. My fae

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
aeper, A’m haet an caald an dirs a weight daddin in my head. F
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
sure as fuck no interested in dirs.(2021) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
's funny hearin on 6music dat dirs an album called "bonxie" aboo(2015) search twitter
I think dirs 2 Shetland names - catty clo(2014) search twitter
e mak a wish, step ootside as dirs a fair twartree shootin stars(2014) search twitter
Dirs a kindo trowie wye aboot dani(2013) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Dis. Dirs war dis leid is haed tae akka(2020) search twitter
ctionaries I hae, onywye. But dirs a fair few aald bodies I'm sp(2020) search twitter
@R_odanort Yeah dirs a lock o ways to pronounce hi(2020) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
kin at da duvet wantin under. Dirs mony a night im faan asleep s (2018) twitter link
s trays on wir landin window, dirs wan in wir box room and annid (2020) twitter link
en we wirna drinkin. Good dat dirs somethin like dis oot fur fol (2018) twitter link
@cymrogav *prepares torches* dirs goin tae be some pillagin eft (2019) twitter link
ng folk we da need to return. Dirs nowhar else lik it ?? #HameSi (2019) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

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