A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

backfired Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1.5 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences33 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of backfired in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
as a stupid cunt hud somehow backfired. Cos he wis sat there lookin on page 36

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
ae strangers, ah but that wan backfired tae. Ah wis fowr an ah proudl
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
nd enhance her popularity, it backfired, that's what I seen and that (2020) search twitter

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