A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stabs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1.5 1.5 39.7 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences103 1 4 0 0 2
Number of authors7 2 1 2 2

Occurrences of stabs in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Racking his mind as his crook stabs the sod, on page 15

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Rackin his mind as his crook stabs the sod,
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The December wind stabs at the lungs ae sober men daf
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
A sidden sairness stabs it ma hairt fin Ah see Mam's on page 79

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
blackbird alarm stabs; on page 10

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ir knackered the entire row o stabs. on page 62

3 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha weefla stabs a tunnel. on page 16

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
ar the big watter bens, palin-stabs an barbed wire mark oot whar
1 matches

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