A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bristles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 1.5 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences62 1 0 3 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of bristles in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ethin. He wis auld, wi siller bristles on his chafts and thin patche on page 6

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
auns in the shadows, the grey bristles ay his facial growth catchin
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
as its coorse bristles furl bricht green. on page 19

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ddle den she minded aboot his bristles. She settled for blaain him a
laa wishin I hedna yockit his bristles sae herd. But I hed nae idder
“Wi aa dis bristles an nae fur I struggle tae kee
3 matches

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