A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tortie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of tortie in Corpus

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Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Lik a hirplin tortie; on page 30

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
h, 'no sae as tae say "Hullo, Tortie!" tae. Did ye want him for on on page 35
tae the Educated - tak tent, tortie Wee Grumphie - tae the Educa on page 82

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
sts, an noo A wis left wi yin tortie thit wad bi sleepin aw Wunter on page 79

1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
That tortie cat's haean kettleens again on page 34

1 matches

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