A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

orcas Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 0 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences52 0 0 3 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of orcas in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tryin tae batter baukit Orcas, on page 71

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
fish tank full ae sharks and orcas and ma only problem wis ah wi on page 185

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
wim. We didna ken dat a pod o orcas had been offshore a peerie wh(2016) search twitter
I got a glimpse o orcas dis evenin. Three days in a r(2016) search twitter
#orcas moving north to Dury Voe dis (2016) search twitter