A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

flax Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 4.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences41 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of flax in Corpus

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Central

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
time it wis a wee village wi flax in its fields. The pits start on page 16

1 matches

Doric

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
een are like the flower o the flax, yer cheeks are like the wild on page 124

1 matches

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
r the yorlin's sang nor see e flax in bloom on page 37

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
he yorlin's song nor seen the flax in bloom, For they’re aye co (2020) twitter link

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