A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scrapes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences106 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors10 6 3 1

Occurrences of scrapes in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
s back doon oan his ain bunk, scrapes his hair wi his haun, calms h on page 1

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
n goat hissel intae some awfy scrapes, on page 146

1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
y in common. Getting’ intae scrapes n’ that. ‘N ah widnae exp
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a Clydesdale Bank caird an he scrapes a bit oot ay the wrap an sets
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
d against th' flair, goin awa scrapes bit ah wisnae concerned. A we
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
look fur fresh scrapes ur rabbit keech. Thur wis ple
1 matches

Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
And the shinin soc scrapes on page 120

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aroon. Ah'v loast coont o the scrapes she's gatten ersel intull." on page 51

1 matches

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huggises help reduce traffic scrapes on i A96 by 75%. Yon loons ch(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
tae the grateful collie then scrapes the rest in the pig slops. on page 117

1 matches

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