A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sickness Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences97 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of sickness in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
se evrubdy bar me endet up wi sickness an diaorrhea cause it turnt o on page 92

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'Sickness. Stella Marie micht huv a sto on page 82
d me mair than being stuck wi sickness masel. on page 89

2 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
l we landed. That was all the sickness we had on board except sea si
we had on board except sea sickness. Our passage was eight weeks
r big puck aff drill and that sickness ah didnae hink ah’d recover
3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ere books despite ma frequent sickness absenses cos a wis a valuable (2020) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
horse that deed wi the girse sickness, nae an him wi a hoast on him
ea, he'd bin near deed wi sea sickness, peer vratch, aa roon the hee
2 matches

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