A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

eighty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 3.6 1.5 19.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences137 1 2 3 0 0
Number of authors10 5 1 2 2

Occurrences of eighty in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae git its value up past the eighty quid mark. Poverty does that on page 18
balance ae thirteen quid and eighty pence sent ma hert flutterin. on page 25
nds hus jist hit a hunner and eighty instead ae the usual female t on page 119

3 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
in eighty days, meh pocket on page 48

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s cheese an onion a hunner an eighty four, Walkers Lights a hunner on page 147

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'Ah turned eighty laste month so ah've moved up on page 79

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
he rest o’ the miners in ‘eighty four, and we had sod all comi
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e Harlaw Academy fae nineteen eighty fower, ah wis robbed o a guid(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me lesson cost me eighty pounds. His wife sent me the on page 8

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
Eighty year ago, wartime servicemen
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Johnny might be over eighty, but he was just like another on page 9
od predict he wid dee, smokin eighty fags a day wi his emphysema. on page 51

2 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
a lang lost ghost o da gale o eighty wan.
1 matches

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