A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sift Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 2.5 0 0 5.8 0 30.9
Number of occurrences145 0 0 1 0 8
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of sift in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
an sift us. Here in Moab, a Great Pou on page 112

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Could I great nature's riddle sift, on page 13

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ter she paintit. He tried tae sift it for ony real information t
ter she paintit. He tried tae sift it for ony real information t
2 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
An quotes tae sift!
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
dy wirds sae dry dey sift on page 14

1 matches

Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
sift exercise tae assess hoo the s on page 8

8 matches

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