Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shiftan	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.2	0	1.5	29.8	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	4	0	1	3	0	0	0
Number of authors	4		1	3

Occurrences of shiftan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
age e witness at all: he kept shiftan fae wan foot till e ither, lo on page 107

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
man wirds in waves atwart the shiftan waas: equaetions, errows. A m on page 101

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiftan shape is they move on page 56

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiftan like searchlights on page 18

1 matches