A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tusks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 3 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 2 2 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of tusks in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
rance in spite o the fact his tusks had never been cut. Afore lan on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
elephantine bahookie and its tusks were as lang as spears. Hercu on page 19

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
uk aboot him, for aa that his tusks haed niver been sneddit. Afor
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
elephant gray A hyst Ye wi ma tusks lik a log faur i the wuid aw on page 3

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ingmaister wad climm onno her tusks an thegither they’d merch a
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
"He haes muckle long tusks, on page 2
ut whar's this baest wae long tusks an coorse paas on page 12

2 matches

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