A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

towels Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences75 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of towels in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
hall it was fulla sheets and towels and aboot fifty
sed – neat furniture, smart towels, everythin orderly – the se
2 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
on, nane o it's wirth the tea-towels that it's prentit on. The Int
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
aments, her collection ay tea towels brought back fae anywhere we
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
oan the likes o coasters, tea-towels, an tote bags? A guid wey o r (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
s, put awa dishes and fold up towels until I realise hoo odd it mu
1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
nCTweets And fake tan aff the towels!(2021) search twitter