A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

polishing 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 polishing in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
atching up its imperfections, polishing its asperities, correcting it on page 69

1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
in A wasnae howkin for wurms, polishing up ma
1 matches

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