A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

houdini Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of houdini in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
appropriate name wid hae been Houdini. Hammy wis for ever escaping
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
n tell him, likes. But fuckin Houdini himself couldnae perform an e
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
even houdini coodnae get oot o this mess f (2020) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
erhead - fa does ur ordering Houdini? Chips n gravy tae Northern f(2016) search twitter