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Use in varieties of Scots

shrugs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4.3 0 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences118 0 3 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of shrugs in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Aldo shrugs oaff this rather valid point. on page 132

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ae run the trail. But he jist shrugs and takes another draw, waiti on page 47

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
She shrugs, and ah point at the sandwich on page 77

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
McShane sais tae Scanlon, who shrugs his shoulders in indifference
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Mare ur less.’ McDade shrugs, pullin oot a bottle ay Bucky
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a heid an look tae McDade who shrugs his shoulders an hauds his ha
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
He gawks at me and shrugs his shoulders before he begin
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
an I waant tae ken hoo." Noor shrugs. "I've been with you here for on page 57
this some days," he says, an shrugs. Thay taak a waak i'the wynds on page 87
I lost track of the days." He shrugs. "I doot hid's ferly busy oot on page 158

3 matches

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