A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

elbows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2.5 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences85 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of elbows in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
y Hall. Hips got leant intae, elbows touched as ye' jostled for sp on page 76

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Oantae the road. Knees high, elbows up. M'oan then. Bit of style. on page 1

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ae the erm hing where ye link elbows, the audience erupts wi laugh on page 3

1 matches

Tweddle, Jacqueline Lallans 102 - Mum, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Ye telt me 'elbows off the table' on page 73

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
an’ taki’ ye up under the elbows, ah imagined they’d sweep y
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
o yer elbows an knees on page 50

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
id as a cushion, restan thir elbows on id, an talkan ower ids hei on page 64

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
et as a cushion, restin their elbows oan eet, an talkin ower eets on page 66

1 matches

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