A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

foghorn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of foghorn in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tes plenty rammy. Vice like a foghorn. Never lifts her haun. I'd pi on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
r this voice that resembled a foghorn. on page 20

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
land folk - da Sumburgh Head foghorn is blowin at noon today!! Vis(2015) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nefit. "She has a voice lik a foghorn, an monie's the boat's bin lo on page 14

1 matches

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