Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'knuckles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

knuckles	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.9	29	21
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	22.8	5	4
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	9.3	7	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	25	2	2
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of knuckles in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
he ronged apo da door wi his knuckles. Hit wis oppened be anidder f on page 56

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Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
grippin da steerin wheel, his knuckles white. on page 57

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
apped loudly at e door wi his knuckles. Id wis opened by anither foo on page 53

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Vi waatched her knuckles turn fite as she grippit the on page 28

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
an obediently (note the white knuckles). https://t.co/01DLGO5llB (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
anda te Callum." He chaps his knuckles against ma heid. "Fit's gaun on page 94

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e pub and ah'm surprised. His knuckles look a bit bruised, but since on page 39

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
he said, anen he cracked his knuckles really loud, Ah'll sort the w on page 169

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Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
its wey ower Houletgless’s knuckles . For a meenit it birlt there
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Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
tin oan the concrete till his knuckles bleed. on page 9

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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
) teuk a brush atween the twa knuckles o his trotter, pentit oot KIR
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Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ed loodly at the door wae his knuckles. It wis opened bi anither flu on page 55

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Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
the envelope, feelin his bony knuckles against ma palm. He looks at on page 11

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in. A kin see him crackin his knuckles n rollin his shoulders. Broon on page 18

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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
windae so hard ah can feel ma knuckles turnin ried. There’s nae an
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
the envelope, feelin his bony knuckles against ma palm. He looks at
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
h hauns, as she gnawed at her knuckles wi her teeth. on page 65

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General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ripped a brush atween the twa knuckles o his trotter, pentit oot MAN on page 6

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
irst chap the walnut wi their knuckles tae see if it's a bad yin! If on page 126
the puir lassie's heid wi its knuckles. on page 128

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ped on Coont Olaf's door, his knuckles knappin richt in the middle o on page 22

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Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
grupped its ain frozent knuckles white wi winter on page 107

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South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
pped loudly at th door wi eis knuckles. Eet was opened b' anither fi on page 54

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@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
rn jeans, shirt and bleedin knuckles. Woke up next morn, thought �(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
ma knuckles preented on page 40

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
kt loudly it the dorr wi haes knuckles. It wus opent bae anither fit on page 55

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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
at hame onlie iver meant raw knuckles, as far as I knowed. An I'll on page 27

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