A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

costume Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1 7.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences92 5 0 2 0 0
Number of authors8 2 4 2

Occurrences of costume in Corpus

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Central

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ell her she should adjust her costume.” She looked blankly at me
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
n Is it too soon for ma covid costume?(2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
In her costume an high-heelers tee on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah'II need te get masel a new costume." on page 36

2 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
k he wiz the ene in the Angus costume when I wiz young. Dunc broke (2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Fit a cracking costume lassie! https://t.co/7pMXH1qD(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
eftirnün an my new swimming costume arrived so my new lyf starts (2021) twitter link

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
orcadian version of a skekler costume made from bere ...(2020) search twitter