A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

butterflies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.1 1.5 29.8 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences104 1 3 0 1 1
Number of authors10 4 1 3 1 1

Occurrences of butterflies in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the queue ah startet tae get butterflies in ma stomach, Tiger, Murray on page 116

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Grubb, Adrian Bungee, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
his wis whin the fear and the butterflies really startit kickin in. A w
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McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
eamed an cheered, then ah got butterflies in ma stomach and ah stormed
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Butterflies noo. Fuckin nerves, always ha
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
source o nectar for bees and butterflies tae feed on. Local bees will
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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
chasan moths and butterflies. on page 6

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Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A frilly blouse wae butterflies oan on page 98

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Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an butterflies, like Christmas on page 123

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Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
lik butterflies the joss-paper auss flies by,
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
fillt wi fossils, insects an butterflies. She leukt up, away frae the on page 48

1 matches

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