Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thumbs	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.3	4.5	0	0	0	0	9.7
Number of occurrences	11	9	0	0	0	0	2
Number of authors	7	6					1

Occurrences of thumbs in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
d in her phone again. Her wee thumbs are gawn like the clappers as on page 6
heid in the room an gies me a thumbs up. on page 24
Ah gie Angela a thumbs up an she radios through tae on page 26

3 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
through MSN n an army ae wee thumbs tappin madly at mobile phone on page 18

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Nae thumbs up or thumbs doon. on page 7

2 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
There it is. Ah gie him a thumbs up as he ducks under the arch on page 27

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
eenager, parents staunin ayr, thumbs an forefingers rubbin, makin on page 3

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
hat yin. Nae dexterity wi her thumbs. Am aff topic. COME TAE MA (2019) search twitter

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An then gie a thumbs up, or wee angry face, on page 35

2 matches