A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

drinker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of drinker in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
At hame ah’m mair of a tea drinker but wan week intae the job an
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
Ma faither wis a drinker. Ye didnae ca’ folk alcohol
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Ah’m no normally a whiskey drinker, eh? Oan accoont the stuff no
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
? Didnae see ye as the scotch drinker tbh, av got a new level of re(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
son wis universally kent as a drinker, an ane nivver less than eich on page 118

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
trange is the fact tae mony a drinker in the Bruntland Arms that, o
1 matches

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