A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

swee Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.6 0 0 23.2 0 13.3
Number of occurrences125 0 0 4 0 3
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of swee in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Reekin awa on the smeekin swee, on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
d, the kitchen lass swung the swee aff the fire an began tae lad on page 17

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Whaur a pot on the swee wis hingin
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
n a muckle pot hingin fae the swee ower the fire afore poorin it
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Swee in the caller air
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
t. Ah'll tell dee what, ah'll swee him fur dee a Sunday, he sood on page 63
"Du's gyaain ta swee a sheep's heid!" he said, "in on page 64

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
r grice is hed his day. We'll swee him an cure him for Hallowmas on page 71

1 matches

Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
eaps. Forbye, but, the' hae a swee tae be bettèr nor yins 'at t on page 9
'at's o tha Scotch kyn an tha swee thair cultùral hamelt daeins on page 11
ch leid, heirskip an cultùr 'swee'd' consarns makkin gear. on page 50

3 matches

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