A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gaffs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences42 0 0 2 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of gaffs in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
or on tae elder wans' flats n gaffs. Me n the boys walk up passin on page 31

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
flair flats, checkin oot the gaffs. A better quality ay tenement
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
r da skirls o dir bairns, dir gaffs an, of coorse, aa dir pleeps
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
hoop A’m geen you twartree gaffs alang da wye. Some monts A‘
1 matches

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