A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stretching Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 1.5 0 9.9 0 31 0
Number of occurrences73 0 1 0 3 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of stretching in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Stewartry stretching oot frae his feet, on page 15

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
” she sayed, “Il was just stretching my legs.” For a meenit, she
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
, standing from the couch and stretching, the trail a hair oan his sto
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
ess o sand/soil and pure sky, stretching northwards and eastwards into
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Stretching oot this fertile field on page 8
Within and stretching high on page 22
Stretching out towards Mount Maw on page 47

3 matches

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