A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skiffie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0 10.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences70 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of skiffie in Corpus

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Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
we aye got a fly An' for the skiffie we sure did look The scones w on page 29

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
madly in love wi Jane, the skiffie at Auchter Glen big hoose. Ey
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
An the skiffie washed her an soothed her, an
he doctor's gig?' speired the skiffie, as she raxxed ower the washi
gert craa. Then she heard the skiffie passin on some claik she'd pi
s frae the Sabbath roast. The skiffie wis skirpin satt ower the pot
t the side o the hoose, far a skiffie wid haud oot her joog. Bit ma
5 matches

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