A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

twitched Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 0 9.9 5.8 0 3.9
Number of occurrences63 0 1 1 0 1
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of twitched in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ck we had gagged him wi as he twitched his last twitch. Tae be on th
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ey his lang fingers moved 'n' twitched in discomfort. In th' wey his
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 Lugs twitched when A heard Aldo wis on 'The (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
o the grund. The cat’s tail twitched an its eyes nerrowed.
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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ed an eerie blue, and da hand twitched. In an explosion o snaa, icic
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Sally twitched an Maisie bowed hir heid. on page 56

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