A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sockets Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.6 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences97 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of sockets in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
O a bale that birns the sockets? Whae will take on page 88

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
set in sockets o gowd. on page 12

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
re gaun'ae pop oot o - their sockets. The lassies' hauns turn reid on page xv
ate's eyes popped oot o their sockets when we stepped intae the hol on page 31
yes almost popped oot o their sockets, on page 87

3 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
the slightest! And their een sockets were staring richt at me...
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
shame. Twa years yer eyeless sockets hae accused, bit noo A’ll p
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
that the wee yalla idol's ee-sockets war teem, nae a trace o the t
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
nae mair as pipper bon, töm sockets stoorin at de wind's erts, de on page 28

1 matches

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