A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

checks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 2.1 4.8 39.7 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences124 3 4 0 0 1
Number of authors10 4 3 2 1

Occurrences of checks in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Line-bi-line checks on page 49

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ered mirror clocks me lookin, checks ma every movement. Stravaig t on page 24

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A leuks for it in the SND an checks the phonetics o the various d
1 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
t him aff wi it.... thon " wi checks an balances" wan? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
He checks his ain reflection on page 55

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She checks tae see if i'mannie's got up on page 132

1 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
Callum checks his baggie and speers his mam
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu checks the homewirk, maks the maet, on page 23
'surfs' the Net wi relish - checks his e-mail every day. on page 45

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
He checks his chairter anent his ladar on page 25
id raeds. "Going Concern." He checks his skeulbeuk. "Get Away From on page 149

2 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
aye forenenst yin anither, wi checks an balances for tae stap yin
1 matches

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