A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

patchy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of patchy in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Yeah...it's...it's just a bit patchy with Ali just now. We've been on page 3

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
thrapple - and shrugged his patchy shooders. on page 24

1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
he fifties an sixties wis gey patchy, while durin ma ain career as
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ubble trimmer tae deal wi the patchy bum fluff across ma jaa. This
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
@Tam__Jardine Dunno yet. Been patchy in the port these last coupla(2020) search twitter