A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scraped'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scrapedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scraped in Corpus

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Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
e da mast, got shiggly as hit scraped alang da röf o’ da cave. A
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
the main road? I scraped fit wis left o him in ower a
1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ildin his greenhoose until it scraped the surface o the sky like an
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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
Ailsa scraped and scraped awa at the waw in a rough app
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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s he's lik a match wi the wid scraped aff. on page 151

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
bi coin drappins were scraped oan scraps o paper. on page 112

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
it's damaged, the gless huvin scraped the surface, scorin a mark th on page 9

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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Her peroxide blonde hair’s scraped back tightly intae a bun. She
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he’s goat brown greasy hair scraped back intae a ponytail which r
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah’d staiyed oan at school, scraped a few Highers the gither an g
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
’s damaged, the gless huvin scraped the surface, scorin a mark th
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General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
school. Ma lang black hair's scraped back intae a pony, and ah'm w on page 5

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