A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nappies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2.5 3 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences95 2 0 2 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of nappies in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ge they need tae start wearin nappies again. on page 94

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That aw wore nappies wanst on page 51

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Scots poem an a box o claes, nappies an the like. Braw Scotland! h(2017) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
e Hippens is anither wird for nappies.(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ouglas4Moray Do ye no hae ony nappies tae chynge Dougie?(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
came in humphin a big pack o nappies. on page 92

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Hippins - nappies. https://t.co/hAosaz54ny(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lec Watt's brat wi its shitey nappies eddir. Ah'm gyaain sooth tae on page 23
a night I met her wi a haep a nappies an baby stuff atil her trolle on page 43

2 matches

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