A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

smilan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 0 3 59.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences80 2 6 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 3

Occurrences of smilan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Wi gently smilan jaws!" on page 18
talkan in a fast nervous way, smilan at everything at wis sade, an on page 76

2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
As sure as death, sheu's smilan and me spirit starts tae soar on page 40

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
smilan but feelan a ropp hank aff as on page 64
til hid's jeust Darling at's smilan an spaekan yet. on page 84
ace just spat us out!" Sheu's smilan wide at the tig o daeth. "Ola on page 124

3 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
it haed geen. Instead he wis smilan at a fairly soor-lukkan wife
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
’s jeust Darling at’s yet smilan an spaekan.
1 matches

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