A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scorpion Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0 1.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences30 1 0 0 1 1
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of scorpion in Corpus

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Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a fishie, or wad ye gie him a scorpion fan he speirs for an eggie. G on page 99

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Whan a yung man taks a scorpion intil his bed, Ah dout the au on page 83

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
es an egg wud he offer hïm a scorpion? If sïnfu fowk like yersels on page 89

1 matches

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