A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tirls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0 0 9.9 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences40 0 1 2 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of tirls in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
he tirls his heid tae fix them, beady-
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
Beltane Tirls on page 21

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
rie chancel dance wi dips and tirls
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Nae sitch a swuther tirls thon croon. on page 34

1 matches

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