A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scruif Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences42 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of scruif in Corpus

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Central

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
On the Earth’s scruif,
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Takkin Back Control, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
the scruif aff yer scaup
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he geelit winters, the Yird's scruif wis firie an hett. wi neuks h
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ui took Sheltie Prattle bi da scruif o da neck, daared her ta mak on page 35

1 matches

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