A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'clockwork'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clockworkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clockwork in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Tickan ower jist like clockwork on page 36

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
r was. Twise a wik, reglar as clockwork, ilka Sabbath Day an ilka Tye on page 88

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
we ride intae Glasgow on the clockwork orange on page 116

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sayed. “You can build us a clockwork time-machine and we’ll go b
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
f ounce every week regular as clockwork lead me tae ma conclusion. Ah
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
aff every nicht as regular as clockwork, and until then, they'd aw be on page xvii

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
It wis a gowd and siller clockwork nichtingale, studded aw ower on page 102
mperor woond the bird up, its clockwork gaed clunk! and the birlin bi on page 105
Music Maister declared. "The clockwork bird plays awfie weel. Dinnae on page 106
," the Emperor girned tae the clockwork bird by his bed. "Skyrie bird on page 108

5 matches

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