A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

compost Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 1.6 1.6 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences73 1 0 3 0 0
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of compost in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
fur compost, an howk up the root!
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
corbies branglin on tap o the compost bing.
1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@RobertMiggins Ahv hud a compost bin an wellies afore but nivi(2020) search twitter

Doric

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
nd get their haans oot o that compost heap in the corner o the gerd
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
. An wir tay bags ir used for compost. Dere’s nae debate, da wye
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
d gardener moment. Da bestest compost I've ever made ever. Thanks t(2016) search twitter
Two leopard slugs were in my compost. Love dem lots. Dey are a gar(2016) search twitter

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