A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

awkwardly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences86 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of awkwardly in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
rs doon his body as he creeps awkwardly ower tae his door. on page 1

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ower young yet...' she paused awkwardly. 'Yer faither an me gied this on page 77

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ur. Ah wave, and _ she smiles awkwardly. She comes over and says the on page 90

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
group, and nobody had tae go awkwardly find a group wi other people.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
get the knife?’ He shuffles awkwardly like a wee boay, the spatters
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Namaste’ sais the guy an awkwardly bows his heid afore waddlin a
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
’them & say yer goodbyes then awkwardly bump intae them in every isle(2020) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
The Castle of Borwick stands awkwardly best the mouth of the geo, hi(2020) search twitter