A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

proverbial Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of proverbial in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t n A skulked tae bed wae nae proverbial supper. It hud been a long da on page 51

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
st the same be an eidiomatic, proverbial or metaphorical wey o express
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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
If he’s flingin me the proverbial deifie then mibbe a bit ay em
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
!!!! Celtic were SEIK as the proverbial parrot!!!! (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
quite a lot in common wi the proverbial 'duck's bum'. on page 43

1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
A wus sweatin like the proverbial, on page 57

1 matches

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