A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

outskirts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of outskirts in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
l, some said, up there on the outskirts luckin doon on the rest o us, on page 78

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t a four-bedroom hoose on the outskirts ae town. Ma maw is just a wee on page 37

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
sgow? It wis somewhaur on the outskirts "Naw, ah answer. on page 1

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
quit his joab an move tae the outskirts o Rome. The toun o Tibur - w on page 101

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"A fantastic location on the outskirts of Marmaris. An all-inclusive on page 6

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
peerie twa bedroom flat on da outskirts a London, wi nae gairden, an on page 8

1 matches

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