A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cleg Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 6.2 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1412 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of cleg in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
her, no fae you. Awa tae the cleg and see whit he's sayin. on page 2
is there. Syne she did. 'Och, cleg, dinna bite. Dae whit ye like on page 3
t that seen tae. Crabbit auld cleg. At least they made her laugh on page 4

9 matches

Fitt, Matthew Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Mr Cleg on page 21

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
A Stot an a Cleg
or you’re a stot an I’m a cleg, an bite!
2 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
unner if it’ll lead tae mair cleg-tipping an back gairden incin(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A cleg's nae geg, nor midgies tae. on page 37

1 matches

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