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Use in varieties of Scots

sketch Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.1 1.5 19.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences104 1 2 3 0 0
Number of authors10 4 1 2 3

Occurrences of sketch in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
n asked us tae meet hur. Same sketch again, doon tae hur bit n nae on page 6

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Like a chaurcoal-sketch o saft fur on page 28

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Riverside makin a wee pastel sketch o the brig. It wis a het sunn
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
k again. No juist a character sketch, that ane, but a never-aa cir
1 matches

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
do an impression of the Limmy sketch above... ??(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
strid staps an pits aside the sketch an draas fae memory the islan on page 94

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
on in 1880 o his The Orcadian Sketch Book, a little-read gem o lor
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
serves as a ineetial sketch o whit wye it wirks. Da on page 3

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ye'd sketch, seekin, aye seekin somethin on page 88

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dis oscar winning sketch fae Uyeasound Up Helly Aa is (2018) search twitter

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