A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sliver Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 6 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences83 4 0 0 1 0
Number of authors8 3 4 1

Occurrences of sliver in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Loch Leven's sliver of sheen between these upland on page 57

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™ he sais, haudin the meagre sliver ay soapbar oot in front ay hi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
I thocht - a blinkin sliver o Chance
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
thin sliver o time atween ane birth on page 33

1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
shiftit in his seat an felt a sliver o sun kittle his face. It wis
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
iv like it heated a thochtie. Sliver o bitter, sometimes a bitty o(2019) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ullie That's macking ma mooth sliver! Was biding aff that the day (2018) search twitter

Southern

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
o, in her ain douce wey: no a sliver o plastic packaging wad she s
1 matches

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