A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

overkill Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.6 0 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences20 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of overkill in Corpus

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Doric

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Ah! A buttrie! Is butter nae overkill, but? https://t.co/qHrwGIK282(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
oles maybe. Might sound a bit overkill but could start of nice at th(2020) search twitter