A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scarves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of scarves in Corpus

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Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
okin at them, wi their tartan scarves ower their chins and mooths,
ruments and pulled doon their scarves and took aff their daurk glas
2 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
alians turn up in jumpers and scarves. John’s slaggin them aff, u
1 matches

Doric

Wheeler, Leslie Brockit, the Ferm Toon Cat, (Grampian Regional Council 2000) Doric, weans
s a fair puckle green an fite scarves as weel for the Dons wir play
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ocks or ganzies or mochles or scarves or toories tae haud oot the c
1 matches

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
15 miles away. We would wave scarves out the windows, and sing' 'O (2024) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
tae forage. Pile on jumpers, scarves and tights - wrap up warm fu on page 75

1 matches

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