Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

affens	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	0	0	79.5	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	0	0	8	0	0	0
Number of authors	1			1

Occurrences of affens in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
"Yir no come by ower affens," says Eynar, awey. Noor sits on page 75
Margit kens her meaneen. Affens fock say "dinno tell" tae say on page 97

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
irds ye miss hearan, yir wirk affens tends tae the elegaic an nost
ot wirds at wir tint: hid wis affens aboot lukkan at the wey fock
2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
lekt wird: “chantan”. Fok affens yeus hid tae anser the fon, t
mak a spaech. This daes, thir affens mor sithrin Scots’ idyims a
them terms is). Hid saems gei affens, haer, mibee apees, tae be ab
3 matches