A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

slippery Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.1 4.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences126 3 1 1 1 0
Number of authors10 4 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of slippery in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
he table legs, bit it wis too slippery; an when she'd tired hersel o on page 14

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - Hame-combin, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
fluttery, slimy, slippery, evasive.
1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
lin cauld wet rustle slime an slippery. Slugs had dragged themselves
1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
abs an fractured concrete wiz slippery still. You wak wi discretion
1 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
The slippery slopers will be up in airms.
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
ae get notifications I'm on a slippery slope ?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - Efter the war memorial at Cowdry Hall, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ng dookin fur memories. pale, slippery flauchts o fit used tae be, s on page 61

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
pickit up the slippery customer. "Oh no!" he shoutit on page 61

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
spread eagled ower the fleer, slippery and gie weet like! #NaeYellaS(2016) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ewart_Bain Watch yersel beuy. Slippery slope n'all(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Manson, Finnley Wir Beach, (Scots Hoose 2017) Shetland, weans
Aa da rocks is slippery
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But noo upon the slippery slope on page 11

1 matches

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