A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

guillotine Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences41 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of guillotine in Corpus

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Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
e this. Time tae brek oot the guillotine(2020) search twitter

Doric

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
or blunt guillotine. on page 25

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Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Scalloway Castle, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, poetry
At da command o’ da guillotine’s blade.
river o’ bluid spilt be da guillotine.
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