A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

overdrive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 3.2 1.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of overdrive in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae me his mind wis gone intae overdrive. Processin the possibilities on page 99
could see his mind workin in overdrive as he contemplated who ah hud on page 195

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
tung". MY computer went into overdrive trying to spellcheck the e-ma
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
d and irrational thoats intae overdrive. The wee guy heids straight f
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
his curiosity hus went intae overdrive.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
tae relax but ma brain is oan overdrive as to why Im wantin tae do Co(2014) search twitter

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ichty me! Ma OCD is gyan inta overdrive as the #Doric Phrases Facebui(2018) search twitter