Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sniffin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sniffin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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	5.1	2	1
WCE - West Central	18.4	4	3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sniffin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Regrettin sniffin quite so deeply when checkin (2013)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
disna weer perfume," Ah said, sniffin it ma wrists. on page 65

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a. Finiver he wan tae her, bi sniffin her oot like a terrier dug, s
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
fae him. It jist stood there sniffin the air nae takin ony notice
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
emory fur us baith. He's busy sniffin aboot the plants that run alo on page 153
Before swiftly he returns tae sniffin aboot and markin his territor on page 154

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id Charlene, He's always pure sniffin roon yi an he pure nearly sha on page 111
ne wur wi me an Charlene kept sniffin the air an sayin, Can you sme on page 169

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
ne wur wi me an Charlene kept sniffin the air an sayin, Can you sme
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
j Whit the effin feck ùr yae sniffin? A hink yer needin tae git oo (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’s ever grown ootae. Alweys sniffin aboot and explorin his surroo
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
inna fash, Kat,’ said Doug, sniffin an pyntin his neb at twa appr
1 matches