A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

settles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 1.5 3 39.7 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences113 2 4 0 2 0
Number of authors9 3 2 2 2

Occurrences of settles in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah go fur a nap. Usually that settles me when ma anxiety’s throug
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
t’s the smaa oors afore she settles doun wi her back til him an h
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ing a lassie’s hair, but he settles fir cupping tae back o’ma h
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Day settles doon ta spit or twa,
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s at ma door last nicht! Jist settles doon efter ma tea, slippers o(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
settles back tae waatch an braethe an on page 18
hter gies a bustan braeth, an settles sam as this wir ordinar. on page 25
risan as it settles. Noor waits fer the spin tae on page 160

3 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ather, consumed again when it settles doon. If in a Day-the-earth-s (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A blue tinge haze it settles still on page 38

1 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
on tae the settles, luggie, stuil an aa... on page 133

1 matches

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