A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

claithes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 6.2 9 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1912 6 0 0 1 0
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of claithes in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
h've got memory loss cause ma claithes keep goin missin. Spent the m on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tely. Before flingin oan some claithes and ma Doc Martens. Bruce is on page 176
h did wis throw oan ma school claithes before ah went through tae th on page 186
ed tae change ootae ma school claithes. Then, ootae naewhere, ah hea on page 197

3 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Wir we that young!, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
intae thay aul claithes on page 48

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
pittin auld nories intil new claithes. We hae naitur perks, naitral
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
sh site. The ithirs had spare claithes tae stuff tae mak’ it look
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
up tae his task. “There wis claithes lyin’ aboot aw’ ower the
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
want tae dress us up in fancy claithes an’ tell us we cannae gang
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
ondit by wispy figures, whose claithes wur spun fae cobwebs. A weird
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
se streets will linger on yur claithes fur months, likes. Bathed in
1 matches

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
le mair than a bundle o soggy claithes. Movin closer, Blair could ju on page 73

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
aumer. Baith wir weerin green claithes an haid
stertit ta tack ma claithes aff an askit iz ta pou aff ma
be quate an sort oot ma claithes. It’s ma nerves ye ken, Peg
claithes or ocht else fur iz, forby yo
hees claithes, ee reekit o silage anaw.
5 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ck o the big hoose, whare the claithes wur peggit oot tae dry, the a
1 matches

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