A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tongs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 1.5 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences63 1 2 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 1 2

Occurrences of tongs in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Duchess an the babby-the fire-tongs an poker an shuil cam furst; on page 44

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
d and curled ma hair wi their tongs. It wis normally like rats' t on page 39

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
things in a fryin pan withoot tongs and lifts food aff the grill (2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
arisees held at him hemmer an tongs wi a cum o back-speirin, sett on page 101

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n, an Darling, discovry. Thir tongs tak a gless. Than eftir, whan on page 49

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
on partans wae the widn clays tongs. on page 31

1 matches

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