A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lingers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of lingers in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
in. The new chair smell still lingers. 'Ah watched a lot ae It's Al on page 1

2 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
face to face lingers if he sees his sons in the st on page 42

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
kly aroma ae desperation that lingers through the corridors. Yince on page 121

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
up like the strange mist that lingers on the laund on page 141

1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Still lingers fae the past on page 44

1 matches

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