Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skelps	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.7	6.2	1.5	0	0	0	8.9
Number of occurrences	15	12	1	0	0	0	2
Number of authors	11	9	1				1

Occurrences of skelps in Corpus

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Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Biler steam skelps through the pipes an pistons, on page 30

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Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the snell air that skelps ye and gies ye the chitters, on page 8

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McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
A ship's horn blast skelps his ears. on page 18

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
kirns it up! It poonds it and skelps it! It maks it licht and frot on page 76

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
bother! Nae bother at aw! (He skelps aff) on page 43

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
o scunnersome jobs, and then skelps them across the coupon. There on page 74

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Fitt, Matthew Jordan's New Jaiket, (Education Scotland 2014) Central, weans
n jouks. Jordan jinks. Jordan skelps the baw. Go-o-o-o-o-al!
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Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Flaws cam an brocht skelps, then scours o rain.
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ovae.net/isn.htm). Gamma rays skelps intae atoms an the smatter ga
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
pecific wird until spellcheck skelps it wi a squiggly wee reid lin
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Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
the snell air that skelps ye and gies ye the chitters,
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ns howpless aroon an reckless skelps the dug's bahookie* is ower I(2020) search twitter

Doric

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
s eyre we steadin’s we fair skelps ‘o grun,
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A troo life's short an time skelps on, on page 35

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
teacher wasnae blate tae use skelps an dunches for tae redd it oo
1 matches