A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

timers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences63 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of timers in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
, you boys wha love seein two-timers caught wi on page 111

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
liefs ae ma parents. Two auld timers who are nuttin maire than boa
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
selburgh defo m8 - thae part timers r no in the same league - b (2021) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
davidpreece12 @FitbaDadi Part timers couldnae be oot in the bex ba(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
lly1 Well a couple of the old timers would call me the 'chirapodie (2021) twitter link
lly1 Well a couple of the old timers would call me the 'chirapodie(2021) search twitter