A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grisly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of grisly in Corpus

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Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
tae dae tak ma mind frae the grisly sichts and soonds an smells o on page 60

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
inese oan thir tent" "Ye were grisly last night man" "You're a pur on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The doctor tells Hot Dave the grisly details in medical speak like on page 86

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
rahduce @surreywallcreep Aye, grisly stuff. (2021) twitter link