Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'skitters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

skitters	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.8	9	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	3
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 skitters 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
'Please God, let it nae be skitters ' she prayed silently. Minnie
the damp in her brikks wisna skitters efter aa.
chikks. The stickiness wisna skitters , efter aa. It wis bluid. Thin
3 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e look like a hurcheon wi the skitters." on page 16

1 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
nic doze o cultural cringe or skitters had smitten the members o the
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
la An’ gote a dose e’ the skitters fur thur pains.
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
run, an that wis aw happit in skitters o stirk's shairn. A taen a me on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
skitters on the causey stanes an shoog on page 45

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
e article - a bad case o the skitters.(2016)