Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chunk	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.3	4.6	3	39.7	11.6	0	0
Number of occurrences	17	9	2	4	2	0	0
Number of authors	12	8	1	1	2

Occurrences of chunk 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
in his confusion he bit a big chunk oot ae his teacup steid ae th on page 109

1 matches

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
birsken me up, an chewin on a chunk o breid, I daunnert ower tae on page 54

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Thinks "That cheddar chunk luiks guid tae me." on page 14

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
Ad throw her a stick or a wee chunk fae ma breakfast and she'd go on page 37

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 59 - Eve and the Aipple, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
the Laird. Then A took a guid chunk oot o it. "As weel be hangit on page 89

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 59 - Eve and the Aipple, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
the Laird. Then A took a guid chunk oot o it. "As weel be hangit on page 89

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
A hail chunk o Scotland an naebodie kens w on page 31

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
n-nation, a drunken rammie, a chunk o stane, a non-existent crait on page 75

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
icent n practically ergonomic chunk of immaculately sculpted meta
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
. Thi shef lad's hid carvit a chunk o eis luviee beef aff an plap on page 40
n scooren, ther weis a mukkul chunk scoort oot o ma frunt tyer, s on page 65

2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
tae poison, hidden deep in a chunk o breid on page 16
Roast pork wi a chunk o crisp crackleen, roast beef on page 31
Hid tore a chunk o feathers oot and stabbed hi on page 56
e hit a big skerry and tore a chunk oot. on page 71

4 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
g at his raa conscience lik a chunk o fresh meat.
1 matches

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o my mental health to hae dat chunk o time durin da day to be by (2020) twitter link