Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'twitchin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

twitchin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.8	9	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of twitchin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said Jack, the neuks o'is moo twitchin wi amusemint. "An Ah'm sure y on page 12

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
fuskers twitchin , his twa wee beady een growin
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
miliar shape o a doe’s lugs twitchin ahin ane o the bushes. But in
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
obvious that by the wey he's twitchin inside the boax. That Aldo's on page 108
like a burst pipe and it wis twitchin involuntary. As if, somehow, on page 129

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
is deid - it wis mebbe jist twitchin wi the heat aff the fire. on page 61

1 matches

West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
stood up and ma lugs stairtit twitchin . Oot o th quiet an th daurk a
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
ye hae yin o thon wee craturs twitchin in yer heid an wigglin in yer on page 5

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
scullery windae; hir heid was twitchin an turnin an takin the hale o on page 2

1 matches