A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

spirit's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of spirit's in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Sair hauden doon his spirit's been on page 7

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Tae cosset spirit's wishes bottelt up in veins o on page 15

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Sair hauden doon his spirit's been on page 31

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Ma spirit's dowie.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
oan the hanbrake. "It's fin a spirit's invitit te show itsel oan som on page 58

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
, sae clearly an' sae keen? A spirit's voice it seem'd or was, amang (2019) twitter link