A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sweeper Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences42 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of sweeper in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ow could he no've been a road sweeper or a windae washer, or on page 99

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
forrit - and of course wis a sweeper fir 25 years - what a career (2021) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n ootside the pub. The street sweeper’s cairt wiz there but nae a
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the flourescent street-sweeper on page 12

1 matches

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