A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

devour Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences83 4 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of devour in Corpus

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Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye look for somethin tae devour."
but whit the speugs fail tae devour
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
houlders before he begins tae devour the tasty bits ae meat clean
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
earth, 'sikkin fa they micht devour'. Hiv ye nae seen fit they ca on page 8

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
keth aboot sikkin fa he micht devour .
wis. Even the Divil tho widna devour Jock Dow, unless the Divil wi
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
an yon Liver n mash I hid tae devour the ither day! Guts still lik(2018) search twitter

Ulster

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Then begun tae devour
1 matches

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