A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

squint Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 3 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences139 2 1 0 1 0
Number of authors13 9 2 1 1

Occurrences of squint in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
e, lyin doun on yae side, tae squint throu intae the gairden wi ya on page 16

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
n fence ahint. He has a quick squint ower his shooder at the lit w on page 1

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
tugged squint bi a cigarette on page 96

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the stuff an the hems are aw squint an everythin an thiv jist bee on page 52

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
un! Ma frien, hae anither wee squint! on page 144

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
o Stella Marie's hoose. If ah squint ma eyes, ah kin just aboot sw on page 50

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Has a squint smile, no brimmin wi confiden
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ers fill the small space as a squint ma eyes tae see through the p
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Mair Licht, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
us squint
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Tales Fae The Doric Side - Doric Dwams, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Folk squint their een on page 30

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
pal. Let’s hang on an hae a squint at whit this fucker’s up ta
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An forks wir stuck squint in the grund on page 72

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
in Ayrshire. If a body had a squint they were "skellie eened/eed" (2021) twitter link