A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

slugs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 4.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences119 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of slugs in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ttert toast), twae-three guid slugs an she'd feenished it aff. on page 13

1 matches

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
A the microbes, slugs and grubs, on page 40

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
When eaten doon wi slugs an snails - on page 62

3 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
tak thi slugs trained oan yer kist, on page 76

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
wet rustle slime an slippery. Slugs had dragged themselves ower e
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
laiters, greenfly, snails, an slugs,
an eaten doon wi snails an slugs.
2 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
an sell us their puddocks an slugs on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Two leopard slugs were in my compost. Love dem (2016) search twitter