A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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detectives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of detectives in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
tae mak oor dream come true. Detectives, ye see, are born that wey. R on page 1
e splerin questions end up as detectives, because that's whit detectiv on page 6
DETECTIVES sometimes say yin tae anither on page 23
ither. Yon's a lesson that aw detectives learn richt early in their ca on page 49
ther folk. That's somethin aw detectives ken, and although she had ain on page 63

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Doric

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