A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

keyed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0 1.5 0 17.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences50 1 0 3 0 1
Number of authors5 1 3 1

Occurrences of keyed in Corpus

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Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
the grun fer alert, fer keyed up, lookin awye tae see fit w
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
nd da haal, but every wan wis keyed; an whin Alice wis been aa da on page 10

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
tagidder in a room wi da door keyed. Jesus cam among dem an said, on page 155

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
, I pat dem in my bedroom, an keyed da door, bit da window wis op on page 29

1 matches

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
xcited or exasperated’ but ‘keyed up’ might be the best defini(2020) search twitter