A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

forefinger Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of forefinger in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
nd.' Peden paused, taised his forefinger in admonition, an fixed John on page 31
pen atween his richt thoum an forefinger, an drummed his ither fingers on page 41

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ach haund, nippin them atween forefinger and thumb. on page 146

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
lang, that oan the stretch'd forefinger o aa on page 101

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ll amount between ma thumb an forefinger afore packing it intae ma pip
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
d an drew on her harnpan wi a forefinger. Than he abandont that abrupl
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
aid, grabbin his cheek atween forefinger an thumb.
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ed the brig o his nose atween forefinger and thoom for a minty. It hid
1 matches

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