A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skerry Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 1.6 0 9.9 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences73 0 1 2 0 1
Number of authors5 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of skerry in Corpus

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Central

@raiphsays tweeted
ngal Naw a luv it!! It wis aw skerry an sad an aw!(2020) search twitter
@Meowchatter Awww he isnae a skerry wan! :D(2020) search twitter
PipsUkes @dollydaydream53 Ems skerry tae(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We hit a big skerry and tore a chunk oot. on page 71

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
bummel bi Kirk Skerry, awaar o shaalds; on page 62

1 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
mayflooer. Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry.
1 matches

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
s jus finking aboot ya an aw! Skerry??????! (2021) twitter link