Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

secks	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	2	1.5	29.8	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	9	4	1	3	0	0	1
Number of authors	7	3	1	2			1

Occurrences of secks in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Scrapin yer siller-secks thegithir ye fa asleep oan ta on page 106

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
stuff like oatmeal oot o the secks on the fluir. Whan she could
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
othie carle. There wis fuftie secks o caff liggin on the chap. By
Frae this he gat five thoosan secks o rice. He made gey rich an w
2 matches

Doric

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
trail wechty dracchts, trail secks o shullans til e mull, aa so' on page 26

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid ransacked the black secks o rubbish and Jimmack lukked on page 16

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
pat me hand in the half-fill secks on page 72

2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
reeds o hemp frae the hessian secks floatin intae a speckled mist on page 31

1 matches