A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

crafty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of crafty in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
presence o a true maistress, crafty and skeely. Here wis somebody on page 102

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ma crafty de'ils, ah ne'er did dout ye! on page 94
wicelik chiel, we say he's a crafty, sleekit, twa-faced bugger. on page 119

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
hoose howff, puzzlin ower the crafty computatiouns – but the hos
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
i @changes_muss brings oot ma crafty side that a never new a poses(2016) search twitter

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ere if she kent far aboot the crafty o the Bogs wiz? She wiz busy
1 matches

Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Magic world o The Crafty, loud music and flashing ligh on page 29

1 matches

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