A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grett Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.6 0 0 9.9 191.8 0 0
Number of occurrences340 0 1 33 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of grett in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
'That grett Muckle Eskadale!! on page 12

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
t comin back ageen, riggit in grett style, wi a pair o white kid on page 18
bishop o Canterbury, at wis a grett man for his hame country, fan on page 26
Dodo couldna answer athoot a grett lock o tocht, an he sat for l on page 27
alp wis lookin doon at her wi grett roond een, an reckin oot ee p on page 41
ingin oot o his mooth, an his grett een half-shut. on page 42
Also on pages 51, 54, 56, 57, 59, 71, 72, 95, 99, 107, 109, 111, 112, 117, 119, 124
27 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Dat night, I grett intae my pillow as if I wid n on page 20
Dat day shü cam hame, an grett her hert oot, fur Robert, fur on page 23
spilt ege yolk on him. Sarah grett ower dirtyin her boannie cair on page 25
quietly an left wis, an Betty grett as if shü wid nivver stop. on page 48

5 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
s, lyin starn on wir wye, her grett lang masts juttin up, anchore
1 matches

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