A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

smoking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 1.1 12.8 9.9 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences122 8 1 0 1 0
Number of authors9 2 5 1 1

Occurrences of smoking 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
wae its erms foldit, quietly smoking away at a long hookah, an pey on page 42

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ever it wis, say mibbe he wis smoking an whin it came tae the end o on page 76

1 matches

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ae me. 'Dinnae ye dare stairt smoking, Davie; she'd say. Fills ma h on page 43

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
I think Ill start smoking Ma pals aa dee't on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"And you've stopped smoking?" on page 8
ur seatbelts and refrain from smoking? Thank you!" on page 41

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
got that wye. But noo wi the smoking ban that source wiz fucked! O
b loads o tabbies. Noo wi the smoking ban drinkers hid tae gyang oo
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Can just see Auld Bert Cowper smoking his pipe in his younger days (2018) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@LesleyTotten No smoking, no drinking and no more mess(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
twartis the Wudburn ferm, smoking his pipe, an whan askit whaur
1 matches

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