A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

curlew Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 0 5.8 0 4.8
Number of occurrences42 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of curlew in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Curlew's haunting cry tae greet the on page 16

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
The curlew’s hauntin cry tae greet the
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ear wind, lintie/twite, whaup/curlew, shalders/oystercatcher and r(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
ames. Have you heard a Whaup (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or Laverock ((2020) search twitter