A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

starter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.1 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences94 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of starter in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh thought eh wiz a non-starter on page 114

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Last starter for ten.” auld Bamber said,
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
lMcF @davcr Goin recommend a 'starter' David Crystal book fir me pl(2016) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
s ghaist stories. Braw lesson starter fir scrievin! https://t.co/VC (2017) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Noo we didna hay an electric starter lyke maist fowk, So we wurket on page 20
leev on a slope eis a baak up starter. She run jist fyne eence she on page 50

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ing wrang wi it. Took aff the starter, gaed it a clean,
Jonsar tried the starter the engine simply sprang inta
2 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Wir starter is spare ribs,” she declare
1 matches

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