A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grabs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grabsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 3
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 grabs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
, nae wanderin hans or sudden grabs in the dark, bit oh me, he's on page 94

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
re in!” an the silly fucker grabs me an diz a wee dance. Mental
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
w ae poun coin - ma wife aye grabs the change fae ma hands afore(2017)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e with me,’ Andrew says. He grabs onto the rope ladder and star
1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
"Catch!" He raxes oot, grabs een o the tin mannies an toss on page 93

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
showin aw his teeth. Padraig grabs fur the shovel in the bunker. on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
in be alloued? It's aw up for grabs! We'd get things wrang fae ti
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
's oan unsteady feet. So, she grabs oantae me. Pits her airms aro on page 36

1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
much longer. Unexpectedly, he grabs at ma erse hard and pulls me
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
s his wey tae the freezer and grabs a bag ae ice cubes and then h
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
goat her fuckin tits oot. She grabs his heid an pulls it doon int on page 7
r an stronger than me, an she grabs me by mah airm an pulls the t on page 21

2 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ht back, pure bold cunts. Taz grabs an empty wine bottle fae the on page 19
e well; Big Kenzie says as he grabs ma hand n shakes it hard wae on page 22

3 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
He stawns back up an grabs the sword aff the ground. He on page 175

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah get ma money oot an he grabs two score notes aff us, stick
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
she'll no dae it neethur. He grabs her hair, on page 46

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
g about the latest Tory power grabs, illegality and Brexit intran(2020)

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