A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

potatoes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 3 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences73 2 0 2 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of potatoes in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Potatoes fir Winter, dykes tae be buil on page 16

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ours as ah ate ma smiley face potatoes and beans, ah go tae ma room on page 51

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Potatoes fir Winter, dykes tae be buil
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n' o tatties fit means enough potatoes for one meal.(2014) search twitter
se that translates to enough #potatoes for one meal. https://t.co/eu(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
o our voyage, and already the potatoes are finished. They have been on page 76

2 matches

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