A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waists Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences42 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of waists in Corpus

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Central

White, George When you're an auld man, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
eukin for wans wi elasticated waists
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
bittie bark tied aboot their waists tae hide their privates. They
1 matches

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Snog, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
oor airms aroon een anither's waists. Aa pullt ye close an ye tilt on page 53

1 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Smooriken, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Shetland, prose
ir airms aroond een anidder's waists. I pulled de closs an du tilt on page 52

1 matches

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