A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tumble Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.5 1.5 19.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences105 1 2 1 1 0
Number of authors10 5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of tumble in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
the airborne drawers. As they tumble through the air, they start t on page 27

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e comin acroass two rough and tumble boays like us in his line ae on page 17

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Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n met his maker efter takin a tumble richt aff the keel o the Quee
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Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
Ben wis alright. Efter his ‘tumble on the hill’ – she’d pu
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@weenell3 tweeted
I think they're shrunk in the tumble dryer! Let's face it he's the (2022) twitter link

Doric

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ma feet went fae under me. I tumble doon and fell clatterin right
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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
oxes beget boxes, teleskop an tumble doon on page 25

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Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and tumble intae on page 143

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
on a plate, bit noo he took a tumble ta himsel, an coodna do anyoc on page 11

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Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
the shed ti the washin in the tumble dryer and your 1 year old cha(2019) search twitter