Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'skirp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

skirp	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.6	5	2
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	13.1	4	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 skirp in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n nippit her, drawin a bricht skirp o bluid. Dandy Davidson wheec
's frost wi nae as muckle's a skirp o watter touchin hoof nor man
nicht, she wid poor hersel a skirp o fusky frae the bottle wi th
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Lords Ganesh an Hanuman, wi a skirp o deevilick wirship tae spice
1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
rby the oncome o ma skirl, ma skirp, ma screeve. on page 55

1 matches