A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

metaphors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of metaphors in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
atur. At the risk o mellin ma metaphors, A'd gang ferrer, an threip t on page 3

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
We bigg ironic metaphors o stane; on page 42

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ce. Ah ken fine Ah'm mixin mi metaphors, but ye could tell he wis lik on page 58

1 matches

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