A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skeigh Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of skeigh in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
but, for the skeigh years o their youth, on page 53
could loup sae skeigh an duck an dive. on page 75
s could mak cauld hairts loup skeigh tae warm in aw thir kists, th on page 77

3 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Ayrshire air. Nae maitter hou skeigh ye wur, it wis gey seldom fas
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
this is no for aw you soople, skeigh, gleg an swipper young anes, (2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
up the date, cheers, hope yer skeigh!(2020) search twitter