A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

silky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1.5 9 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences103 6 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 3 3 1

Occurrences of silky in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ly successful gig mingle wi a silky wee breeze. They soothe, dist on page 3

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Actually stroked the silky cauld on page 119

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
thack-raip an happit in saft silky hairs. A wis fair taen-on wi on page 81

1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
u an een sae blue Lang golden silky hair An slender frame - they on page 15

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She kens fine i'feel o' a silky spider on page 159

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
atch in the itherwise gleamin silky greens an gowds o Matthew Bru
touzles an taigles frae their silky manes a swatch o Drumdelgie,
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
uss. The hinney bees lued her silky yalla flooers. The
na,” quo Scrat, dichtin her silky paws wi her wee pink tongue.
2 matches

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The silky surface pops an on page 81

1 matches

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