A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

shoves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 2.1 24.1 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences204 16 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of shoves in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e an auld horse snickerin. He shoves the picture back in his pocke on page 1

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ALEX She shoves me aff ... aye, she shoves me
me aff ... aye, she shoves me aff, but she disnae shove
2 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
SHE SHOVES YE on page 76
(she shoves ye, aye, aye, aye) on page 140

15 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
He shoves me oot o his wye. I canna bid
1 matches

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