Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pursed	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.9	2.1	1.5	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	6	4	1	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	4	1	1

Occurrences of pursed in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
mpbell were scandalised, lips pursed, erms foldit, whispers fleein on page 76

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Lips pursed, een steikit, as tho in a dwa on page 56

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
amorphous shapes rather than pursed lips. Wan ae the figures swam
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
His mooth wis pursed up like an arse,
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
gied a wee nippit smile, her pursed lips pittin Donald in myn o t on page 36

1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ursley sipped her tea through pursed lips. Mr Dursley wondered whe
1 matches