A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blokes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.6 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences85 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 4 3

Occurrences of blokes in Corpus

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Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
it wis deid warum. The bigger blokes played fitba bit they hid tae on page 76

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
feart fae naebdy an wid fight blokes twice es age an twice es size on page 44

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
) Ah wis asked oot by various blokes in bars. When Ah declined the(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
immediately. And that is why, blokes, we've got tae get involved i (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ckoots at tescos - aye n the blokes tae lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
lish cless, an three or fower blokes wi them.
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
Fits gan on soonds waur than blokes singin. Screechyer than saved(2020) search twitter

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
g about funerals, I heard two blokes say (this is NE Scots so don' (2023) twitter link

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