Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

stretches	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	1.5	6	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	3	4	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	2	3	1

Occurrences of stretches in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah leave him dain his stretches - the Prayin Mantis an aw th
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ext ti mi, gets ti hiz feet n stretches oot a haun, ‘Kenny Urquhart
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
At the door, he stretches to rub the boy’s hair. The
1 matches

Doric

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
There wid be great lang stretches fin her mither wis awa. Somet on page 14

2 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
then stretches oot on page 55

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
muckle knife; as the big yin stretches back his airm wi that great b
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The stretches pulled and nipped on page 107

1 matches