A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scaffies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences62 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 3

Occurrences of scaffies in Corpus

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Central

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
en it up afore Ah get tae the Scaffies' Depot, an mibbe make masel a on page 113

1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
he bevvy the night ya numpty! Scaffies were late the day here. (2022) twitter link

Doric

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
and dump it a in the bin. The scaffies were due the morn so she wid
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r get yer bucket back fae the scaffies an fin ye keek in aire is bin(2019) search twitter
has had tae ging oot tae the scaffies? https://t.co/g7w7kHzA2l(2020) search twitter

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Still havena' seen the scaffies gan aboot Aberdeen. But the b (2022) twitter link

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