A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

squiggles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0 3 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences30 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of squiggles in Corpus

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Doric

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
wis my ain face an' a lot o' squiggles an' arras an' signs an' symbo
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
face, blendin intae the black squiggles o hair. He’s draan her wi a
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ng, an I cannae thole the wee squiggles owre a wheen o the letters... (2015) twitter link