A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dinners Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.7 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of dinners in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e like it then dinnae eat the dinners in this hoose,' her faither s on page 19
ir mither tae bring in the TV dinners on a tray. The tclevision had on page 44
n cairryim a big tray wi four dinners on it. The day it wis fish su on page 49
ae a guid feast at the schuil dinners and that keeps me gaun till n on page 184

5 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the superviser ae the school dinners; an when she's no knockin her on page 33
Ah decidet tae go fur school dinners fur a change cause ma ma keep on page 87
black eyes than he's had hot dinners wants tae work in a hospital. on page 141

4 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
idnae help losin hur hamemade dinners an aw. The cream jumper ah'm on page 74

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
r, A get owerfaced wi' turkey dinners in the run up, sa ri last 'hi
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
yes o the hoose afore ony big dinners or parties were given.
1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Fancy dinners, hids like feedan a mill on page 73

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
cious...like all the auld DPS dinners and puddings still served at

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