A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

speechless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of speechless in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
st like masel, everyboady wis speechless wae the words spillin oot ae on page 190
Ah wis speechless and before ah could respond. on page 197

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
starin at each other, utterly speechless. This fuckin scumbag, though,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@EamonnReynolds for once am speechless lol (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Fur a moment shü wis speechless, an dan shü let fly, on page 18

1 matches

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