A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

flail Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 1.5 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences50 1 0 0 0 4
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of flail in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d, afore his body wad yark an flail like a pouppet wi its towes b
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
An in the wicked whup an flail o on page 13
Wuz a soon an flail an flaff: on page 27

3 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
joinin, roon thontim tae, tae flail an spalter aboot somewhur in
1 matches

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