A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

- pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings - fine-grain concord -

Use in varieties of Scots

scurryin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences62 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of scurryin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Gilmour, Rosie Haimster Pairty, (Scots Hoose 2016) Central, weans
Scurryin the washin an bitin claes peg
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
This is the Potemkin Pairty, scurryin aboot, thrawin up bonnie hoos
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
abbit the bouquet an gaed awa Scurryin up the street. on page 25

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
an oor or twa Munro’d come scurryin oot lik a frichtened rubbit,
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
g an thocht it hid been a rat scurryin aboot. Onywye she held up the
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
flock o laverocks / skylarks, scurryin aroond feedin. I'm feelin gra(2020) search twitter