A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scourin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1110 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of scourin in Corpus

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Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
a debutante cocht in the bath scourin her oxters, an he says, "Whit on page 86

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ir abune Upper Wellwood while scourin the hills for their faither. on page 58

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
pit oot an breathe free oan a scourin, liftin sea.' on page 14

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
fae thi scourin burn, on page 23

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
body wid be daft enough to go scourin in there, would they? An if t on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An the reek gaed scourin up the lum. on page 23

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
ae hide frae the troopers noo scourin the countryside fur the likes
ur the govenment hud troopers scourin the country on the look oot f

@Chazzbat tweeted
Efter scourin the internet, Ah think Ah've (2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ely a bogey. Spent mony a day scourin dumps for auld prams just tae(2020) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
scourin ditches an mine tips for floo on page 88

1 matches

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