A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seagull Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of seagull in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ng such as this' - there's a seagull peckin at the chunks in some on page 8

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tae chainge it. White, mibbe. Seagull. Big. Strong. Raucous. Scaven on page 1

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ony fresh whaup, wild deuk or seagull eggs they'd gethert on the mu on page 56

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
(goul mau seagull; cuschet wood pigeon; titlene on page 23

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Big...Mad...Seagull Man!" on page 3

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
n o wirds that #Scots has fir seagull! https://t.co/L5pWbnT2uY http (2020) twitter link

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
a scurry an a pewl, but nae a seagull ?? (2021) twitter link