A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

anvil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences52 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of anvil in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
his hemmer chinklin atween anvil an wark on page 21

2 matches

Doric

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
first thi bleeze an syne thi anvil on page 82

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he’d pit its heed ontae the anvil and mash it wi a haimmer. “
1 matches

Orkney

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Drivas wae hammer on anvil - on page 35

1 matches

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