A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sways Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of sways in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nd flyin bottle. The audience sways n oohs n ahs at the right poi on page 22

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
uch busses an birks wi muckle sways o breer, brammles an jaggie-n on page 59

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
but she sleeps on, sways with lax complexity of on page 91

1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Up the coorse brokin road. Sways o bog cotton on page 60

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Which sways wi' gentle breeze on page 8

1 matches

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