A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sweets Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.1 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences118 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of sweets in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
d, 'Dinnae let me catch ye wi sweets in cless again or ye'll be oo on page 39

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
anced aboot and munched on ma sweets in their rainbow coats and th on page 36

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ee newsagents an she'd buy me sweets an a magazine. See cause she on page 57
ation aboot dairy products or sweets - it was a last ditch attemp on page 99
ent an bought us a Chinese an sweets an juice fae the van. on page 148
it's no lik ah could get her sweets or chocolate or anythin. Ah w on page 154
e we never brought her up any sweets or juice. on page 155

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
on ony coonter whaur Wonka's Sweets are selt. And the five lucky on page 24

1 matches

Doric

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
ae the paper shop tae buy yer sweets
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn, Wi caller verdure (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
y up the street, skrekkan fur sweets. Harry Potter come an bide he
1 matches

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