Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'crafty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

crafty	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.7	9	8
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	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central	17.8	4	3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	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 crafty 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.

Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Magic world o The Crafty, loud music and flashing ligh on page 29

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ere if she kent far aboot the crafty o the Bogs wiz? She wiz busy
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
her ain back, she haed mony a crafty trick graspit ticht within he on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
presence o a true maistress, crafty and skeely. Here wis somebody on page 102

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ma crafty de'ils, ah ne'er did dout ye! on page 94
wicelik chiel, we say he's a crafty, sleekit, twa-faced bugger. on page 119

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
hoose howff, puzzlin ower the crafty computatiouns – but the hos
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
he vernacular tradeition. The crafty faushioning o leid as soun an on page 62

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
i @changes_muss brings oot ma crafty side that a never new a poses(2016)