A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

marbles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences52 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of marbles in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ed Charlene, talkin lik she'd marbles in her mooth, Yeah, said Nico on page 94

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Bools, marbles, jauries. Whit wis yer word f(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
he spak lik 'he had the Elgin Marbles in his moo' - pickin on the on page 54

1 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
@ClaireHANM The Elgin Marbles, apparently... ?? Nah, just s(2020) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
oot?! He ken that he lost his marbles?! ?????????(2020) search twitter