A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skittered Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.1 6 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences104 4 1 1 0 0
Number of authors9 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of skittered in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
The jenny lang-legs that skittered fur on page 16

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'Haud on!' cried Mr Wonka, skittered tae a sudden stap. 'I am verr on page 120

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
sses birled aff o his neb and skittered awa intae a corner. His left on page 54

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
broken iceslabs in the basin, skittered up the streets. A quarter eft
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e o yon magazines she aye his skittered ower er coffee table. Weel," on page 33

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
oo...an te see it jist aa get skittered te the fower wins...weel, Ah' on page 89

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ckles o his Bruce cousins war skittered aa ower Malaysia an Ceylon ma
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
Hid a nesty curry there afore skittered ma yella cape awfa sotter.(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
An skittered intae Multitudes. on page 20

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
an laeves haeps o skittered poems on page 35

1 matches

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