A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

elf Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 0 0 0 58.1 0 3.9
Number of occurrences110 0 0 10 0 1
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of elf in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
do come in,” said a peerie elf struggling tae reck da latch.
y Upatree, Santie’s aaldest elf. He wis croogin ower a bairn
at da desk wis a younger laek elf wi da 2008 file. He leapt tae
“That’s what my army of elf spies have informed me. Just
“Greetings!” roared an elf dressed in green fae head tae
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Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
ye ghaistly ither, Ye sleekit elf." Wi that his yarn o life wen on page 59

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