A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

blubber Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 4 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences98 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of blubber in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n faimlies, as tae hou muckle blubber each ship had managed tae gai on page 33
tryin tae fill their holds wi blubber or nou an agin were jist ower on page 36
ere sometime huntit fer their blubber if whales cuidnae be fund, bu on page 37
egin strippin the baist o its blubber, anither richt filthy, coorse on page 41

7 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rakes oan him as ah start tae blubber uncontrollably ‘’Listen,
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
penga fur da blubber an da banes on page 63

1 matches

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