A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

seam Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 1.5 9.9 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences62 1 1 0 1 1
Number of authors6 2 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of seam in Corpus

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Central

Duncan, Robert Peeweep, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Lumphinnans, poetry
As they holit a seam
1 matches

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
e howkin as weel fae a gowden seam in yer ain pairties’ histor
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her broos, like an ill-fittin seam. There war nae mair nur ten b
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiny black wae a snowy white seam. on page 17

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
en o makars inby and a gowden seam fir the poetry and the staunn(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Hume, David The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
But they niver fun a blissit seam
1 matches

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