A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

deft Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of deft in Corpus

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Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
that deft, and quick o claw on page 45

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
tness aye needs a thing to be deft wi. on page 72

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Descriptions, o’ deft slichts o’ han’,
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
is nippit by, i dy deft vynd, an wi da gift on page 86

1 matches

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