A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ruffle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of ruffle in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
re folk. Coach gave ma hair a ruffle, unsticking it fae ma heed an on page 37
nyway. Ad line us up and he'd ruffle all our heeds, one by one. Bu on page 39

2 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
ruffle yur feathers show me yur plum
1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae ruffle the waves and keek up a dust. on page 28

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
tae ruffle the waves and keek up a dust. on page 154

1 matches

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