A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

octopus Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences31 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of octopus in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
An octopus or Hielan coo, on page 18

1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
oder and hud it like a living octopus tae his fore atween him an Bo
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e, a rubber thingummy like an octopus, cauld an kittly, an listen t
1 matches

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