Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whirl	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	1.5	7.5	19.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	10	3	5	2	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	3	3	1

Occurrences of whirl 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

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whirr o wind an whirl o wheel on page 56

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
wud whirl tae naewhere in a win o flame on page 112

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
it! But mebbes it’s jist a whirl o haar or a lump o stane or a
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
, ken fit I mean? This social whirl on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Viennese Whirl?" offert Ruth, spikkin wi her on page 75
the baallroom duncin anither whirl." on page 85

3 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
s (the work van) and gee it a whirl. Even ma feed winae last a th(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Is they whirl an they whess an swaet throug on page 27

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Is they whirl an they whess an swaet throug on page 152

1 matches