A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wildfire Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences42 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of wildfire in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
It skytes like wildfire ben the brae
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
he tore doon the stair like a wildfire — happy tae see those crabb
1 matches

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gallows Ha - Annie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
spread like wildfire through the place. on page 30

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Da news spread laek wildfire, an da nixt day Ruby, ane a d on page 74

1 matches

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