Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

snifter	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.4	3.6	6	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	11	7	4	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	4	3

Occurrences of snifter in Corpus

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Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
, mind; if'n yer wantin a wee snifter buy twa boattles), an the sto on page 69

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
An snifter at baggies on page 47

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
ntae the nicht air and took a snifter. on page 11
mooth o the tunnel and tak a snifter. Then he wid snoove back agai on page 33

3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
6 folk n continue huvin a wee snifter - as for mikey gove - laddi (2020) twitter link
e kin still awe enjoy oor wee snifter - n mines is a cool pint o t (2020) twitter link

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
Haadin his snifter-dichter wp Forenenst his flow on page 55
dledee. "Ye see, he heild his snifter-dichter forenenst him, sae's on page 56

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wi muckle roond horns, gien a snifter tae
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
kiwi1 @Historic_Ally Fits yer snifter o choice?(2019) search twitter