A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chests Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 3 3 1

Occurrences of chests in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ing, pints clutched tae their chests. The boys' faces beamed brich on page 76

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
got big bushy beards an hairy chests, ah think it's pure manky loo on page 95

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
nal Service heroes puff their chests, on page 41

1 matches

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
es wi black lungs and hoastin chests. Ah wunner if the insides o D on page 43

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
here an aa: beds, waardrobes, chests o draars, tables, cheers, the on page 94

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Cadgin widden tea chests fae yer chums
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ts - menthol rubs fur wheezy chests on page 75

1 matches

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