Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'chafts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

chafts	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.8	9	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chafts 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.

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
The chafts at chack, the clusks at cleik on page 21

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e gart me shave mysel till my chafts were like a year-auld bairn's
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
rancie chafts , at he socht ti dern bi warin
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ixter-maxter o his trig young chafts
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Nine Fragments - III, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
e lowpit strecht for her, her chafts raxed like a puma shawin its
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
riggs at gang up an doun the chafts. It anerlie hes wie bit tuip on page 13

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
thaim? Beatrice clenched her chafts tae keep her teeth still. The
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ld, wi siller bristles on his chafts and thin patches o white hair on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
pig cried Squealer, wi roond chafts, skinklin een, nimmle feet an on page 6

1 matches