A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spines Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences53 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of spines in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
frae spines on page 38

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
amed as a chill went up their spines.
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
nt amoont o Scots wark rubbin spines wi them, helpin tae develop S
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
stickleback net, ischial spines - on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ndrin if dis is de wird wi de spines apo dem? (brug = mossy or hea(2020) search twitter