A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dirdin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 2 7.4 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences104 5 0 0 1 0
Number of authors7 3 3 1

Occurrences of dirdin in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
but suin turns intae a dirdin o fash on page 14
ikin forrit, hauf dreadin the dirdin on page 49

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
aus and Sunny heard a muckle, dirdin dunt as the front door wis fl on page 45

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
There's dirdin an clunkin o plate
1 matches

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Doric, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, poetry
like a bairn dirdin doon the stairs,
1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
the whang wad near come dirdin throu
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
an flechin an scrattin, an a dirdin o teenie-weenie
dirdin an a wallopin an a sweelin, a
wis poorin doon hale watter, dirdin aff
3 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
dirdin on claes even on frae ferr aw on page 34

1 matches

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