A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

elves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 0.5 4.5 0 29.1 10.3 0
Number of occurrences101 3 0 5 1 0
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of elves in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d Chris Rice, Invasion ae the elves. You're pure sad, ah tolt him on page 169

1 matches

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
is bein telt aboot faeries, n elves, an chemicals that a fermer w on page 84

2 matches

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flechie as Sunti Claus an us elves winna cum doon yer lum until (2019) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
eed o peerie fokk: Santie’s elves.
lickit his fingers an a dizen elves ran by. Dey lined up an boxed
umbstruck. Dere wis hunders o elves. Fae a corner cam a scrittlin
aft as Pepper opened da door. Elves in peenies an peerie ceps wir
ble to get off with employing elves alone. I’ll have to employ
5 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
re's dancing angels, fairies, elves on page 39

1 matches

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