A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ferryman Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences32 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of ferryman in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
k a wraith-waulker. Skald the Ferryman wadin oot o the sea. on page 9

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
his haiverin auld bauchle o a ferryman widna let him on his boat. on page 53

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
da pier Smootie waited fur da ferryman ta turn his back, dan shö ni
1 matches

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