A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

purred Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 3 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences83 2 0 3 0 0
Number of authors5 2 1 2

Occurrences of purred in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
awly made!" the Music Maister purred, as he woond the bird up. on page 102

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
the Riverside Pride,” Dave purred like a chainsaw.
boot fower month ago,” Shug purred.
2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
a blaik, blaik, kittling that purred an preened an powkit its fur
McGinty’s seat an purred wi pleisur.
2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
hite spot ipo his heid, as he purred fit ta burst. "Ah'll get da C on page 28
her, an da peerie cat sat an purred his hert oot. on page 31

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
dna wait ta clap her. Smootie purred loodly aa da wye hame i da ca
1 matches

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