A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

eggshells Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of eggshells in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
He kent the score, we aw did. Eggshells. on page 7

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Ah'm tired ae walkin oan eggshells wae this fanny" Aldo announce on page 109

2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
pale blue een like a mavis's eggshells, an hair the colour o dry str
1 matches

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