A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chirpin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences63 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of chirpin in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Invaded by thae thoosands chirpin awa in wee short breeks, on page 25

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
chirpin tae a bleary bit o gloom
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ma smoke alarm hus stairtit chirpin. Ah'm no able tae climb ma st(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ms; a bourach o spurgies were chirpin roon the waal in the middle o on page 53

1 matches

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ettin oot for a flee aboot an chirpin awa happily tae hersel.
1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Dowie chirpin in the gress ablo ma aesins, on page 40

1 matches

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