A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shears Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.6 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences127 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 4 3

Occurrences of shears in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 85 - D.I.Y. Doctor , (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
it it oan the table. Noo, the shears an a bit lint oot the table d on page 36
Maw haundit the boay the shears an taen the bottle o iodine f on page 36

4 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
lugs fir ears an scissors ir shears on page 121

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
wi a pair o kitchen shears, on page 23

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
he herd at Toombucht, wi' his shears--she had trysted Ecky withoot
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
it fae him an taakin a pair o shears fae her aapron pooch started
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ppit his tea, he tuik oot his shears an a fang o yalla paper, an
luggit as he laid by the shears.
dragon. He hid teeth like shears, feet like a puddock, an a mo
3 matches

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
zers, bastin threid an pinkin shears.
1 matches

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