A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

vat Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 3.7 4.8 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences117 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 4 3 1

Occurrences of vat in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
horrible pink liquid oot ae a vat an flinging it intae some mac on page 60

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
kkin it and noo looked like a vat o bluid. Then, leavin Sunny a on page 51

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Bleck dregs o sump an vat anynted him on page 37

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
fer the pairt + £50 labour + VAT, so £60 labour + £10 pairt,(2020) search twitter

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
that vat o flames in 'Terminator', on page 51

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Floatin doon i' Burn o' vat, nae dookers brocht wi' me on page 175

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Rob Roy's cave in the Burn o Vat, far he tuik me aften an telt on page 51

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
a Shetland Open sold dey took VAT aff o it, it's no affected da (2014) twitter link