A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gnaw Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences62 1 0 0 0 3
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of gnaw in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@EileenFindlay3 I could gnaw my arm aff??(2020) search twitter
@Heels04178190 I could gnaw my arm aff. ????(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
begin tae gnaw at his stamach. He thocht it
1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
a rat. Shae sed, “Rat, rat, gnaw the rope.
mae a lock o cheese. An A'll gnaw the rope.
the rat. The rat stairtet tae gnaw the rope.
3 matches

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