A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shaves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 1 19.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences152 13 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 3

Occurrences of shaves in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
air is naturally thinner n he shaves it aff. Why his mum n dad nev on page 38

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Survived so many close shaves,
1 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Lenny Payne, i'barber shaves anither customer on page 126

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
n fowk tae mak a richt squad. Shaves were biggit
an it teen twa lads tae fork shaves aff
uck on tae thrashin mull. Yon shaves were set upon be twa lousers,
he binder twine an handed the shaves tae the feeder. Shaves were
tae the feeder. Shaves were
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. The McPhails hid bin forkin shaves aa foreneen inno the fairm ca
a its mechanical clivverness. Shaves cut doon bi the scythemen, sl
is wife tae help him lift the shaves frae the grun, an load them i
auns war needit tae stook the shaves, settin them up on eyn, stibb
yn, stibble tae stibble, echt shaves tae a stook, set north tae so
7 matches

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