A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ferret Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences62 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of ferret in Corpus

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Central

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
here. Thelonious is a fucking ferret, n he’s bonkers. Ah’ve no
ice meat cleaver, a funny wee ferret, a promise of porridge n a me
2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
o letters tae me, tae try tae ferret oot fit my religious inclinat on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wis makkin ready tae pit the ferret. Syne he'd rin roon tae tithe
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
YwliJMw dinnae ken of ane fur ferret.(2014) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
cht fer deen it! Heeds like a ferret doon a gutter! Blame yon Rabb(2020) search twitter

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