A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

palaver Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of palaver in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
glidin yince. Looked an awfy palaver tae me. Hingin oan fur dear l on page 1

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
sht at the hale peerie-heidit palaver, watched Amanda Threip descen on page 108
as weel as the great hair-oil palaver that hud bleached her faither on page 130

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the next thing thir wis a big palaver an Charlene's neighbour phone on page 45
ah'm no intae aw that drinkin palaver an that's whit yees'll aw be on page 60
er, Ah'm too auld fur aw that palaver, she said, Me an Harry are ji on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Nae exams then or ony palaver - on page 82

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
im whit he thocht o the haill palaver? “Son,” he reponed, wi a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
boyo never been intae awe the palaver oh the edinburgh fringe m8 - (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n gaed throwe the hale kissin palaver again. on page 30

1 matches

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