A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blethering Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of blethering in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
life she was a busy wee body, blethering and footering intae all thing on page 3

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
mpatient then, aa their adult blethering wis delaying oor fishing. I c
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
t @katiec1314 ?????? you been blethering tae DRoss ?????? (2022) twitter link

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Aye yon blethering eedyits can try their muckle (2018) search twitter

Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Delighted to be blethering awa on Kintra this week https(2019) search twitter