A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tanker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 1.1 6.4 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences72 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of tanker in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
through saumples, treatment, tanker, lab oor Scottish Watter''s j on page 77

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
flock roond yi as yi lift yir tanker on page 4

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
The Petrol Tanker
e big six wheeler Esso petrol-tanker, the prize piece o his collec
shiny, spleet new Esso petrol-tanker, wi glossy blaik tyres an a d
t – if ye gie me the petrol-tanker.”
4 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
da anniversary o da Braer oil tanker spill #seabirdersaturday #gui(2015) search twitter