A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

contours Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of contours in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
kin taewards the green, boggy contours an sheer jagged cliff faces a
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
O’ paths an’ crag an’ contours,
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
its vertiginous contours an on page 16

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha contours, jookin owre a wheen o peaks: on page 53

1 matches

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