A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scythe Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 1 9 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences112 6 1 0 2 0
Number of authors8 2 4 1 1

Occurrences of scythe in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
net ower his broo an pittin a scythe tae his shoudder. An aifter m on page 14

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
wi witless, bizzan scythe an suin on page 54

1 matches

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
my time 1 started oot wi the scythe On that | can remember fine. on page 29

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in cut an gaithert wi sickle, scythe, reaper, binder an the big ya on page 93

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
the swish o a scythe - that wis the loudest soun on page 16
ned, the airm that swings yon scythe, nivver wearies." on page 19

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r ain wee airt nae touched bi scythe or plooshare, a roch rickle o
aun, an swung the shaft o the scythe back an roon an brocht the gu
2 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
before baling. Assuming cut (scythe or finger mower) turned (by f (2020) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
yer scythe Yid,” an Yid did sae, an Wa
efter ae wheen strakes wi the scythe hei stappit an leukit it Yid
2 matches

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