A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

kidnap 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 authors3 2 1

Occurrences of kidnap in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Yae didnae kidnap Bonnyrigg's manager's wife or on page 102

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e. Anither suggestion wis tae kidnap him an secretly send him aff on page 85

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
e so Brian would very kindly 'kidnap' me for a blink if he w(2020) search twitter