A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shrank Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of shrank in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
r like he couldnae settle, he shrank doon intae a wee hing. Like h on page 1

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ttlit across the flair awbody shrank back an a clear way was made on page 94

1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
stared them doon an back they shrank on page 142

1 matches

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