A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

clothes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6 7.9 3 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2016 2 0 1 1 0
Number of authors13 9 2 1 1

Occurrences of clothes in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a quieter cunt. He wears the clothes n walks the walk but he keeps on page 8
n at a time. They look at our clothes, builds n war wounds. Most ae on page 21

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
need a flash motor, designer clothes, a holiday abroad yince a yea on page 24

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
. Madame Bonnie's built lik a clothes pole an she's always got on t on page 16
in a factory that made aw the clothes fur Marks an Sparks. See aw y on page 52
the chance ae gettin some new clothes. Turnt oot she jist wantet me on page 96
t wears aw the weird tie dyed clothes - an evrubdy says probly smo on page 125
doon the charity shop wi auld clothes, ah said. D'yi think she wis on page 133

5 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
kagin’ wi his ticht leather clothes outlinin every part eh his bo
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes, the norrie that fantoosh thi
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
trailer, with the students’ clothes an’ any spare equipment, do
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
We’ve picked up some nice clothes for you at the flea market an
You’re wearing Beatrice’s clothes,” he sayed. “You've heard
would never wear Beatrice’s clothes - ” Than she mindit that
3 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
an o’clock in the mornin in clothes frae the dawrk ages”. He wi
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ith new confidence comes auld clothes! Thanks @JeffBrazier and @Com(2015) search twitter

Doric

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
obvious: he must stop wearing clothes!" on page 25

1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
i cin git let aff we using ma clothes n ah ma makeup. There's nae c
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
And as for giving them decent clothes - well - it would spoil the on page 35

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
carol_baraniuk Aye, the words clothes-horse or maiden or drier just(2020) search twitter