A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scuff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scuffOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.243
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 scuff in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ensia, came up tae them, 'New scuff, ah guess,' Hortensia said ta on page 96

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
some contact wae the gless an scuff ma haun doon its surface.
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
'til nae twa hings coud scuff, on page 54
A scuff o dag on skin on page 56

2 matches

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