A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chaain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 0 10.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences70 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of chaain in Corpus

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Doric

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
a vyce wi bowfin, ma teeth wi chaain wull aa hae worn deen. Aa I k on page 26

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
at a table. 'Fit's aat ye're chaain awa at, man?' spiert Jamie. on page 42
The man kept chaain awa. on page 43

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
thered near a clump of trees, chaain awa at the lang girse. The su on page 15
or a meenit or twa lik he wis chaain teuch beef. Syne he spak, an on page 19

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tae a richt milk-coo. I'll be chaain the cweed neist."
1 matches

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