A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

discreet Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 0 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences53 0 0 0 2 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of discreet in Corpus

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Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Tam. I followed tae, keepin a discreet distance like. Eftir aa, Shug on page 26

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e when they’re tryin tae be discreet ‘get oot yer scratcher ya f
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Ah relent tae his discreet demand and swiftly whip the t
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And hidden cottages tucked discreet on page 14

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
t i the Scottis Borders is ae discreet subjeck. A wud urge the Borde
1 matches

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