A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chancers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of chancers in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
'Than walk thae chancers doon the aisle.' on page 21

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
In cam a bunch o chancers an fancy-dancers that naebudd on page 55

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The chancers o day, on page 153

1 matches

Ulster

Graham, Angela Yarns 3 - Tha Goolden Whun, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Belfast, prose
bi chancers’ flum;
1 matches

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