A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

chooks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 5.5 10.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1811 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of chooks in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
en fermer. He kept thoosans o chooks. He wis a muckle fat fodge. T on page 2
wer the shop, huntin the daft chooks. on page 40
said, giein the three sappie chooks tae the biggest o his fower w on page 42
Oxterin the three sappie chooks, the Wee Tod ran back alang t on page 43
n a dwam, Mammy! They're real chooks! We're saved! We're no gonnae on page 44
Also on pages 48
11 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
peerie chooks cooried in a stane wa sica st on page 3

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
oked like an erne's beak, his chooks sunken in roon his moo, like on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e onythin tae scrape frae his chooks wi a razor. The fattest ratte
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ing o puddens hingin frae its chooks – nae sausages, bit intimme
three days' stibble ower his chooks an a brukken neb far somebody
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
An Kirsty Ann raxxed her chooks like a crocodile aboot tae sn
her chooks war stappit fu. Bit Snochrie
2 matches

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