A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hints Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.1 4.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences94 3 1 1 0 0
Number of authors9 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of hints in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
She hints fur mair information, and ah on page 92

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
untamed and fresh and clean; hints of the Scottish sea so far aw
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tae pick up a hale barrage o hints ower the months - he wis aye
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
for tae negotiate a union, wi hints o weir gin thay failt. Syne a
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ilk, ‘Sleep in the Park’, hints tae it bein a glorified muisi
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ae share nae maitter fit mony hints! http://t.co/UEDNvruw9L(2015) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n community. Includes tips an hints aboot methods. Click on: http (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
eff In a drain aside the road hints at roadkilled Whitemaa scaven(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
trel sniffer too :) There are hints of pilau rice, auld books, da(2016) search twitter