A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

swipe Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.5 9 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences125 6 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 3 5 1

Occurrences of swipe in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
in ma fancy wee locker hingy, swipe ma digital caird tae lock it,
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
the perfect opportunity fur a swipe.
rmacist’s back is turnt, ah swipe the haun gel fae the counter.
2 matches

Wallace, Lorna An Ode Tae Tinder, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2020) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
An’ aw yi huv ti dae is swipe
Swipe till yiv hud the whole toon r
2 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
An swipe the room lum an aa" on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rabbit a brush an stairtit te swipe up the hair fae the shop flee on page 10

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Swipe, an swat, curse an swear,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rk agin tsunamis gin they sud swipe ashore frae the sea an sweel
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
room. It gies bairns a muckle swipe o Scots poetry fae Dunbar til (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
rocious black-back hid taen a swipe furbye. on page 56

1 matches

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