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Use in varieties of Scots

quiz Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 7.5 3 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2015 2 0 2 1 0
Number of authors12 7 2 2 1

Occurrences of quiz in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
m. The telly wis oan and this quiz show wis jist aboot tae start on page 34

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'How daur ye,' cried God, 'quiz the Almichty in the mainner o on page 49

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Thur wis a quiz oan the telly. Dinnae ken why on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e love apparently. Aw and its quiz night tae. And as it happens on page 66
now by the time ah git there. Quiz night means the place will be on page 67
rcule Poirot tae ken that the quiz hudnae quite went tae plan. E on page 72
s still gone at him aboot the quiz. on page 73
e tae Aldo, "ah'm guessin the quiz didnae go well then?" on page 74

6 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
st Centre on a Tuesday night, quiz night doon the Hielander? Tae
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
tions. The hing ah like aboot quiz shows is that they remind us
1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
oot and it wiz gonny be a dry quiz but the wine fairy came up tr(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
speakers yaise. Ye can take a quiz tae see if ye hae 'a wheen o (2020) twitter link
olk at @UlsterScotsAgen pit a quiz thegither tae find oot if ye (2020) twitter link
an create a comic, complete a quiz an listen tae audio files o S (2018) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
t October like this? at's the quiz.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
stuck on some island & stupid quiz shows! Fits happened tae yon (2020) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
ek eenoo is da Radio Shetland quiz ?? (2020) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
3rd equal in da pub quiz. Rather impressed with oursel(2013) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
'busy' or 'ugly'. Quair auld quiz an a wheen o spellin errors f(2020) search twitter