A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sharpen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.3 1.6 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of sharpen in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ast me tae go tae the bin tae sharpen her pencil right after that a on page 113

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
feet insteid o shoes. We can sharpen that up a bit, but that'll be
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
@Wilson34David Ye MUST sharpen up yir basic linguistic skill (2022) twitter link

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
@MarkThompStuff I cannae sharpen mine for there are weans in t(2020) search twitter