A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

knobs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of knobs in Corpus

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Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
ets - ye huv tae twiddle yer knobs tae get it tae the richt sett on page

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
hines and turnt hauf a dizzen knobs this wey and the ither; then on page 100
n its joints and adjustin its knobs and polishin its great gless on page 142
Mr Wonka adjustit wan o the knobs and the wavy lines gaed awa. on page 151

3 matches

Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
rm stove. The stove had bress knobs that gleamed in the lowe o th on page 51

1 matches

Doric

@daleser23 tweeted
. Get a fuckin grip ye fuckin knobs!! #cunts(2014) search twitter