A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

smirks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.7 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1111 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 8

Occurrences of smirks in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
orin. Aw his condescendin wee smirks aimed firmly in ma direction, on page 35

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
He smirks, pleased as you like. "Of cou on page 133
He smirks knowingly, as if in appreciat on page 164

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
'yi have a nice Christmas, he smirks, Ah certainly did, said Arlen on page 169

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
He raises an eyebroo and smirks. on page 12

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
She smirks, haundin back the cigarette. on page 4
when we make eye contact, she smirks, holdin the photie ower it. on page 81

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 76 - The Gied Ower Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Winter aye smirks tae Autumn: Walcome. Walcome,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
realise ah’ve sais it. Tam smirks an ambles oer tae the mat ful
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
clay bodies; primming wi your smirks an your dimples, and rinning,
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
bastard, Rents, ye ken? Simon smirks above us, finally sliding his
1 matches

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