Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shairply'

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Use in varieties of Scots

shairply	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.6	15	9
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	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	94.2	3	1
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 shairply 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.

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
whilk the Doric spikkin loun shairply replied, wi his best kent wir
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
outstretched haun wes driven shairply doun intae the dubs by a muck
d oot hurlin the roe’s heid shairply intae the air afore she drapp
2 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
shairply to mind.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
The faither keeked up shairply. Ah wid mind!' he gurled. 'Di on page 21
She yerked the bunnet shairply. Mr Wormwidd let oot a roar t on page 26
Miss Honey looked up shairply. 'No bad,' she said. 'Ah get on page 187

3 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
mainer. The lave birselt her shairply , and they gaed ootby. A wheen
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
roond and snappit his fingirs shairply, snap, snap, snap, three time on page 87
mean?' spiered Mr Teevecheid shairply. on page 151

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s fecht o the 1540s is brocht shairply intae sicht: thay spear cuid on page 110

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"Ah hed not!" cried th Moose, shairply an fair beelin. on page 30

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"A had not!" gret the Moose, shairply an wile angry. on page 31
richt tae think," said Alice shairply, fur shae wus stairtin tae fe on page 91
tairts wi a T!" said the King shairply. "Dae yae tak mae fur a dunce on page 113

3 matches