A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

smirkle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 0.5 11.9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences91 8 0 0 0 0
Number of authors1 1 1

Occurrences of smirkle in Corpus

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Central

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
His wee lauchin mou wuir a smirkle richt braw,
1 matches

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
you play at chess? Nou, dinna smirkle, my wee daatie, I'm speirin a on page 13
e aal mannikie, an gied her a smirkle. on page 15
ompaingen jist gied a leesome smirkle an said "Aat's nae ull tae ma on page 32
Deedledee gied a douce wee smirkle, an yokit tee again: on page 51
smirkle, "Gin Your Mayesty wad jist t on page 64
Also on pages 67, 82, 98
8 matches

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