A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sparkle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of sparkle in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
fit, and yer eyes seemed tae sparkle, and ye said Aye, he wis inde on page 80

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
sparkle in meh eyes. on page 112

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Time, Sparkle fir evvir'." He leeved oot hi on page 102

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ystalised like sugar-loaf tae sparkle in ony glimpse o sun. Trenche
1 matches

Doric

Kerr, Oliwia, Sarah and Amber Fiona and the Ring, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
nd rubbed it so as tae see it sparkle and, a o a sudden, oot o naew
1 matches

@glenlivetloon tweeted
tewartMcDonald I've seen mair sparkle on my pug's erse.(2020) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The stars they sparkle, contrast the night on page 47

1 matches

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