A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tenterhooks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1.5 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences33 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors1 1

Occurrences of tenterhooks in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
That'll be a week a spent oan tenterhooks, ah fink. on page 44

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
a professional. Donald's oan tenterhooks awready. The doactor takes af on page xvi

1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah’m oan tenterhooks waitin fur the postie. Billy,
1 matches

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