A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dowps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of dowps in Corpus

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Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
fower clowns sittin on their dowps haen a blether, includin that on page 37

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
whuskies an we wuid waarm wir dowps afoir a rairin fyre o clogs,
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Muckle Michty Neep, (self-published 2021) Central, poetry
… Awbody landed on their dowps.
1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
ere the lift’s gey grey, he dowps doun upon a braw bit marble s
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
n legs. She stank o pish, fag dowps, chaip scent an foostie sex,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
a an fite, drappin frae their dowps.
1 matches

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