A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

gasps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of gasps in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Oi" he gasps. "Dinnae be hinkin ah've come on page 66

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
There were gasps fae the audience, and some o on page 146

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
orth aw mornin. The hale room gasps in anticipation as tae who’
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’Aldo’’ he gasps, glowerin directly at me. ‘
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Coughin and splutterin atween gasps o screamin agony he felt as i
1 matches

Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
‘Da Press!’ he gasps oot. ‘Da Press frigate is a
1 matches

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