A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tatters Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.6 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of tatters in Corpus

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Central

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
John's bum's in tatters,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
t wey are ye trampin aboot in tatters? An whaur did ye git thae byo
at Hsien, whase claes were in tatters efter mony a faa. “Wee ance
2 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
His work life in tatters on page 120

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
In trouble, riggeen in tatters on page 151

1 matches

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