A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

taper Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences42 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of taper in Corpus

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Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e singed the woolly powe wi a taper fae the fire afore bilin the
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
k a total o’ 134 miles then taper aff in the 5th and 6th week.
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ssie lichted the lantern wi a taper fae the fire an set fit tae t
1 matches

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
Dir aye kempin ta get da best taper, like hospital corners. It ne
1 matches

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