A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skellie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences54 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of skellie in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
e. A'd a been better keepin a skellie-ee'd houlet, or a libbit cock on page 48

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
sit skellie on page 50

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
but thir warped and skellie airms on page 76

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wis ma pentins war comin oot skellie, back tae front or on the wra
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
body had a squint they were "skellie eened/eed". (2021) twitter link