Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scoffed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

scoffed	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	4
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scoffed in Corpus

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General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ss o the noodles. Aifter ah'd scoffed the lot, ah went ower tae the on page 42

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
scoffed anither flask o tay bit compl
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@suzfirst Second Butterie scoffed(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
Jist scoffed chinese. Awa tae snaffle a bo(2011)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
us. The beasts had killed and scoffed him durin the battle. on page 37

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Pish!" he scoffed. "Fuck knows what yur smokin on page 99
Aldo scoffed "Ah bet yae she tells yae it' on page 91

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
an’ ower the evenin’ had scoffed the lot!” A went oan tae ex
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
at fodge. This wis because he scoffed three biled chookies slaister on page 2

1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ison1741 @MrMcEnaney Actually scoffed at the plate spinning bit! I'(2017)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
It scoffed thirty weans
1 matches