A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

puffins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0.5 3 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences51 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of puffins in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ddie driftit awa tae hunt fir puffins cooriet in thir wee burrows, on page 14

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the richt names fir them aa: Puffins, Kittiwakes, Guillemots an Ra on page 21

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
There are kittiwakes an puffins on page 4

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
macdonald Anything but fekkin Puffins! (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e selfy- sometimes u can see #puffins fae a car at Sumburgh Head RS(2016) search twitter