A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

butchers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.5 4.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences127 3 1 1 0 0
Number of authors9 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of butchers in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
aipples and oranges, and the butchers wi bliddy dauds o meat laid o on page 171

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ve and past Galbraiths an the Butchers an the Coopie, it’d catch m
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ae that blow. Ah’ve goat ma butchers’ apron oan and ah’m caref
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
he prestigious James Anderson Butchers oan Great Junction Street. Th
the fuckin Cambridge uni fur butchers. It’s a trek fur a bit ae m
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t the scrumptious pies at the butchers at dobbies gairden centre n a (2021) twitter link
edinburghpaper what aboot the butchers in portobello - will a get p (2020) twitter link

Doric

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
the shops, and bocht fae the butchers’ and bakers’ vans, or the
1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Intae the butchers for sassages an' liver
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
I bumped inti him i'day at i butchers an he wis stockin up on sassa(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
place. Fair fa ye, Olivebank butchers! Serve wae mashed tatties and
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Rhome123J Yis, ony o da local butchers wid sell it!(2021) search twitter