A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sleek Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.3 1.6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 1 1 0 0 1
Number of authors10 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of sleek in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
- na shairly, far better tae sleek soonlessly doon the stair lik on page 133

1 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
It's sleek black rump shone in the sun, on page 13

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
e very beasts thrave swank an sleek, on page 91

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ut ticht-set gress, quiet and sleek and green. It wis the ainly p on page 163

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Lang pistons till they yerkit sleek in slicht, on page 23
e very beasts thrave swank an sleek, on page 53

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
e very beasts thrave swank an sleek, on page 91

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
o thi lang, sleek, black limousine. on page 74

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hirin rug or loss them in the sleek ablow. The heid o the consait
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
your car is auld, or new and sleek
1 matches

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - Efter the war memorial at Cowdry Hall, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
yer teeth?" these streets are sleek wi ghosts. sloshin an slitter on page 61

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
d whar Standard English didno sleek the flowe o globalised capita
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
glossy white, thair feathers sleek an blak. on page 1

1 matches

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