A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

birra Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 4.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences99 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of birra in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
Boabby sups his birra. ‘Ah’d miss wee Kirsty bu
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
alk alang ri prom tae Solkits birra struggled ower Cannon Hill in
ey sugar whin A'm oot walkin' birra spat it oot whin A realised r
door A couldnae smell nu'hin' birra gote a wee blast aff ri heat.
slice intae ma gub fae habit birra couldnae even taste rat. It w
says ri same 'hing ivry year birra like tae hear it aw ri same.
7 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
' a'v nivir lerrum furget it, birra wis seevin' yur auld an' rey
1 matches

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