A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

twilight Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 2.1 1.6 9.9 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences84 1 1 0 1 1
Number of authors7 3 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of twilight in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
certainly fast approachin her twilight years.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
rdson3 Never really got intae Twilight a wis an Angel fan! I'd perso(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n there - the clowns fae the twilight zone r oot - the sheep huv b (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
z barred fae the inside efter twilight came shimmerin doon in the Br
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
assionate utterance. In their twilight years, the writers Edwin and
1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
'm sure ma fither, who in his twilight years was #Hawick's traffic w(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
rly beautiful expressions for twilight: “gloamin” and “dailygan”(2020) search twitter