A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cruisies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1.5 0 59.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences93 0 6 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of cruisies in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
th. The feeble licht frae twa cruisies made it a wee bit easier for on page 56

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
aboot lamps - tillies, cruisies (like I yaised tae burn ben), on page 100

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
licht cam frae grene alabast cruisies, an the plece swoumit in a ca on page 2

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
a gless. Than eftir, whan the cruisies brighten tae morneen, wi Darl on page 49
Meginwick The wynds is lit by cruisies set tae Stannart Days, peedie on page 61
easons an a almanac, Noo thir cruisies an year-roond wark. But thay on page 126
t the ither side o night, the cruisies giean the wynds a dairker rei on page 134
rid haes the shutters doon an cruisies slockit. Anunder her blanket, on page 161

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