Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'firewirks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

firewirks	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.4	8	2
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	22.9	7	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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 firewirks in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
t wis a speecial nicht-it wis firewirks
eired if he wis comin tae the firewirks display, he shook his heid.
eid hung doon. He WIS feart o firewirks . He wis terrifeed o bangs, an
e twa jeelies. And of course, firewirks nicht wis ae muckle bang efte
firewirks gaed aff. Rockets zoomed an f
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General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
aye haes a smile as bricht as firewirks gaun aff on Hogmanay. on page 2

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