A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

strokes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of strokes in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
y. He walks behind oor table, strokes Dolly's shooder then he heads on page 7

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
uby gless ower in his haun an strokes the label as if he's caressin on page 1

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
d the blade, an wi swift sure strokes, cut the raips that bound the on page 38

1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
the face an gaed me sax mair strokes o the Lochgelly. Aboot yone t
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
play here n av joost broke 90 strokes fir the first time so a canna
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ad kent the order tae dae the strokes in - wi yae finger in the it
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
He strokes his abdomen on page 54

1 matches

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