A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fink Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.5 20 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences4039 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of fink in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Whit are the chances? Ah fink. Ah keep ma lips sealed on page 4
a first period. Ya dancer, ah fink. Harry and Ruth hud music fur on page 6
Wee, ah fink tae masel. She used the word on page 7
Thank God, ah fink. Talkin tae Dante's like tryi on page 9
s sommat funny aboot Dante ah fink in P.E. Why did he lie aboot on page 10
Also on pages 11, 14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 35, 36, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 53
28 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah fink o Granny. Me and hur wur the on page 26
n room, ah didnae immediately fink the worst o Granny. It wis ju on page 27
Ah fink o the rumour Leanne spread ar on page 28
Ah didnae fink it wis possible, bute Thistle on page 30
'Mental. If you fink Mum wis mental that wis stage on page 33
Also on pages 36, 59, 60, 85
10 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@dollydaydream53 Aw a fink so! A huv been oot 3 time sin(2020) search twitter

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
we fit ye boyz normally dee. Fink ye boyz we(2020) search twitter