A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stings Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of stings in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
n mah eyes, this stuff fuckin stings oan it's way up. Over Mo's sh on page 15

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
ist. Regairdless o the nettle stings an the jags oo baith breenged on page 59

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
that fuzzy nonense. Wan tooth stings an throbs up the back ay the on page 3

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
When the bee stings, on page 23

1 matches

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
me mair fear but rogic iwise stings us ana. Time fur Zig and Zag (2020) search twitter