A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

flaw Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 3.5 3 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences117 2 0 1 1 0
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of flaw in Corpus

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Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
in its heelstergowdie ebb and flaw, kyths as a strenth (as Yiddi on page 59
souchs o intonation kyth and flaw like the leivin tungue itsel. on page 62

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
idleset, nae twice-commuitted flaw. on page 8
cries unherkent in the deavin flaw on page 25

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
. No lang syne chenges in the flaw o gases in the north pole, ca
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
A flaw is a fireflaucht or lichtenin
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
o the tirlan burns and rivers flaw tae.
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
aething tae moan aboot jist a flaw.
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae play abroad? It’s a major flaw in the Scots character - the (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ing tae bein a murderer as a 'flaw'. https://t.co/YtpWSko6Le(2021) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Just one wee flaw it burnt yer taes on page 44

1 matches

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