Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

splat	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	3.1	1.5	19.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	9	6	1	2	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	4	1	2

Occurrences of splat 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

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
it's usually vomit. If ye kin splat the uniform, that does it. Gi on page 1

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ft belly and anybody can jist splat ye whenever they fancy. See t on page 1

2 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
?, when suddenly, a solid wet SPLAT hits me square in the face an
1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
sworn he hit the groond wi a splat.
n karma that could make me go splat an aw. But that’s ma Bettie
2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
the creels, splyter, splooter splat, richt doon tae the boddom o
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
it's not our fault you landed splat. We'll do it as a goodwill ge on page 75

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
see you all aff wae a muckle splat! on page 146

1 matches