Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

vacant	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	3.5	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	7	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	4	3	1

Occurrences of vacant in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
is still joost sittin there, vacant as fuck. No a single brain ce on page 8

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ee if any ae the machines are vacant. on page 38
nted masel doon oan the first vacant desk ah could find. Ah then p on page 189

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lack, deid eyes like a shark, vacant an inscrutable. It bares its
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
this afore, eyes glazed oer; vacant. He’s goat that tunnel visi
kin stab me’ he sais, wae a vacant look oan his face.
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
at the same time, disparately vacant an unnervin.
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ak a lookie it the Situations Vacant in the paper, than," said Dot on page 87

1 matches