A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

snails Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.7 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 5 3

Occurrences of snails in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
eft tae theirsels tae eat the snails - naebody else wuid touch th on page 99

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
een biled hairy oobits in it. Snails, tae.' on page 7

4 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
When eaten doon wi slugs an snails - on page 62

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Wi slaiters, greenfly, snails, an slugs,
an eaten doon wi snails an slugs.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
a' like hawks, we're a' like snails, we're a' like slogie-riddles
; like hawks to do evil, like snails to do good, and like slogie-r
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
skink, Hawick Balls, Jethart snails, Berwick Cockles, Kirriemuir (2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
they're nae fashious fowk An snails deen in garlic - gyaad ye co on page 15

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
e like it French, I'll mak ye snails on page 114

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ik wi the doonpish garrin the snails in the gairdens draa in their
1 matches

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