A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sheriff Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.1 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1410 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of sheriff in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Sheriff Shirty does his 'you again' l on page 1

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
wfu dangerous, that path, the sheriff said. They've fenced it noo. on page 59

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
n a place in the office o the Sheriff Clerk o Paisley, the heid gui on page 69

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ht that thon incident whaur a Sheriff haed daured a laddie frae uis
umer haed mair tae dae wi the Sheriff's ain pairsonal consaits aboo
2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
it whit thay hae seen tae the sheriff, aiblins a comment o whit bod
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The sheriff said, "Ah'll settle, if ye ca
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
he wis caught rid handit. The Sheriff jist fined Jake three hunner
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@MartinBroon tweeted
r worried aboot gettin set up.Sheriff Dept personal threat level hu(2020) search twitter

Doric

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
lemn atmosphere – Aiberdeen Sheriff Court, far he wis being tried
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
fash wi the court. A hope the Sheriff is lenient on me... https://t(2017) search twitter
Ach, the Sheriff sentenced me tae sivven days (2017) search twitter

Orkney

Hume, Caroline Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Add a dod o Sheriff Coort on page 126

1 matches

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