A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scissors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of scissors in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
So Mrs Wormwidd took a perra scissors and cut the thing aff his hei on page 30

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Wiv got lugs fir ears an scissors ir shears on page 121

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
at the door. B She nivver let scissors near her hair. An she ayeways on page 31
but I'll hae a go. Gie's the scissors. Hiv ye ony cellotape? on page 65

2 matches

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Since fan wis Rock, Paper, Scissors part o gym at skweel?(2020) search twitter
@BenPhilip_ Rock, paper, scissors wid have been fairer.(2020) search twitter