A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sieve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.6 3.2 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences63 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of sieve in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
again. Ma bladder wis like a sieve. If on page xvii

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - Hame-combin, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
aa times o year my tid is to sieve
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
hey would strain it through a sieve to make sure it had no lumps
1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e maun be lik e younngest, an sieve man be lik e orraloon. Fa's e on page 117

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
y hid mair holes in it than a sieve and they said I wiz lucky tae
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
It’s wile hard tae sieve cockles an peebles wi ma fing
1 matches

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