A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dirks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of dirks in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
hoose and had claws like the dirks in a kiltie's soack. When Her on page 7

1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
boot kirkyairds wi muskets an dirks, ready tae kill ony student t
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
, basket-swords broad-swords, dirks, targes, and the first use o

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
accusations that stabbit like dirks, ilka een. Tae say A nae lang
1 matches

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