Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

distract	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.2	5	3	0	5.8	0	0
Number of occurrences	14	10	2	0	1	0	0
Number of authors	10	6	2		1

Occurrences of distract in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ilky wee breeze. They soothe, distract an blow baith wir hair coinci on page 3

5 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Cathy, in order tae distract on page 32

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ise the despair. Somethin tae distract him fae his, or anybody’s i
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
alanta as she rins an it will distract her.”
1 matches

McClure, Alan A poem, (Twitter 2022) Central - Galloway, poetry
Tae me, or ocht that micht distract them
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
their pet men tae pop up and distract wi pish (2022) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ppen tae thi lad's tae try an distract their attintien a bit, fin, " on page 26

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
by in shorts is struggling to distract me fae Twitter the night. COY(2018) search twitter

Shetland

@HazelTindall tweeted
ie things ta trötil aboot ta distract wiz fae aathing else. Fok in (2020) search twitter