A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

slug Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.6 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences119 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of slug in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
d, efter aa. You took a great slug o tea. Mrs McClymont Josie sa on page 81

1 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
grin on yer mug, ye daft wee slug, an come an jyne the dance. W on page 44

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
er Campbell - a lang slochie slug ae a laud. A nestie piece ae on page 3

1 matches

Briggs, Susi Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
And fun a big slug in the tae o his welly. on page 4

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Deep Thochts Inspired by a Slug on page 62

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Tae find a juicy slug or snail."
wir free o slug, likewise o snail,
2 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nnae yir pals could lend me a slug gun. That’d get the job don
oot every doo in Glesga wi a slug gun? Yir bein silly.’
2 matches

Doric

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
gulls eggs we would tack oor slug guns and shot rabbits and har
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ts d'day. I winder if he aets slug eggs?(2013) search twitter