A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'strikes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strikesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91915
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
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 strikes in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
ot that he wes a Taurus. This strikes me as a gey Italian inclusion
It strikes me that the wan place whar th
2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
@ScotRail Are the Sunday strikes still going ahead? Need to ge (2021) twitter link

General Northern

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
The hoor strikes seven thirty
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
his arrow, way off course It strikes a tree, on page 5

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
st read thae poems as new. It strikes me that the Scots Purdie scre
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
™ It hid aw adae wi Twintywan strikes ir Twintysax strikes, och, a
ir Twintysax strikes, och, a guid wheen o strikes
, och, a guid wheen o strikes onywey. Bit whitivver it wis
3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
at a night lads and 2 quality strikes a might add and no forgetting (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e door, the kind ae cunt that strikes fear intae mah very heart - on page 4

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an his face illuminates as he strikes it, dain that Bogeyman face c
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
. They called hur Miss 'Three Strikes' Bert, because she never hit on page 38

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
This news strikes ye ti the bane. on page 35

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Ane o the things that aye strikes me whan wirkin wi A Dictionar
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ower the hinner 60 year, whit strikes ye maist is the reenge and am
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
mak it hairder tae haud legal strikes (requirin a threshaud o suppo
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
jority o the turnout tae haud strikes. An wha gies thaim the pooer
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
@EamonnONeill It strikes me that The Mollicators would(2020)

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