A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pirls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences42 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of pirls in Corpus

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Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
perfumit pirls, ay, wimplin aa about uis on page 25

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
herth, wie pirls o smeik gaein litherlie up th
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he deid brummils war wee hard pirls o blaik, like rabbit's drappi
1 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
nae mair tae dem as sheep’s pirls. Tae dem, I wis juist a witch
1 matches

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