A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skim Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.3 1 55.2 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences402 37 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of skim in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
whar the flichterin swallows skim. on page 18

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e their ba’s sae they would skim aff an’ plough through oor
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
fter eis, twa Boddim laad's, "Skim an Muskey,"' weis cullecten s on page 5
boot 3 hunner waicht, apiece. Skim hid a brainwayve, "A'l (ak th on page 6
rm an got a hud o a laad caad Skim, an thi emediatly jumpit aboo on page 12
""Waa waa bathie." Oneywury, Skim chukket ower a tow an sum o B on page 13
Gibby Burnett, Harry, Hilly, Skim, Ma unkil Zool, an ov coarse on page 50
Also on pages 51, 52, 55, 56, 57
36 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
e and wreck it though she’d skim her wee leggies across aahin.
1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Thein skim alang wi mighty speid on page 32

1 matches

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