A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'skis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.652
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 skis in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
skis shoodered lik Olympic javelin on page 25

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
des those are the College’s skis you hae oan!” said I, deliv
Right! Ye can have yer bluidy skis!” said the now furious youn
young lady, kickin’ aff her skis. “An’ ye can hae yer f-in
sticks, her sticks an’ her skis ower yin shoodir an’ her bo
4 matches

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