A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wrench 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 3 1

Occurrences of wrench in Corpus

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Central

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
on bird-nesting. Margaret’d wrench her tittie clear o Mither’s
1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
us aw, yin bi yin, a dreidfu wrench o grief in the pit o oor bell
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
For the decidin’ wrench;
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
airn bairns the staetion. The wrench kens her haand. Her haand ken on page 144

2 matches

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