A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

handles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences43 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of handles in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Shi moves an handles irsel well. on page 84

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
pensive-lookin wood, hus gold handles, a cross oan top o it on page 113

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
r ?? wae wan of they carrying handles wance when A wuz a Boy, cause(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
sh, tough and used fir weapon handles. Embla made o' elm, graceful (2020) search twitter