Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lenses	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	2.6	7.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	10	5	5	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	4	2

Occurrences of lenses in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
es and sterted tae polish the lenses wi a hankie The bairns stayed on page 68

1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
wind thersels up. Yi ken thit lenses, arnae megic een. Thae fowk d
weel. Thers a limit tae whit lenses kin dae. Mind yi, tell them t
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h sais: A wee gawky cunt, the lenses ay his NHS frames steamed up
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ae his jaiket an polished the lenses wi the fingernebs o his gluiv
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
oot the scratches in the auld lenses,
or mebbe gie him new lenses intae the auld frames.
id. "I will give you stronger lenses, and Jonsar I can
new lenses intae his auld frames bit, th
4 matches

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hid a look at her een wi his lenses for the job.
1 matches