A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sniffin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 3 4.4 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences106 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 5 3 1

Occurrences of sniffin in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id Charlene, He's always pure sniffin roon yi an he pure nearly sha on page 111
ne wur wi me an Charlene kept sniffin the air an sayin, Can you sme on page 169

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
ne wur wi me an Charlene kept sniffin the air an sayin, Can you sme
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
inna fash, Kat,’ said Doug, sniffin an pyntin his neb at twa appr
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’s ever grown ootae. Alweys sniffin aboot and explorin his surroo
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
j Whit the effin feck ùr yae sniffin? A hink yer needin tae git oo (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
disna weer perfume," Ah said, sniffin it ma wrists. on page 65

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
fae him. It jist stood there sniffin the air nae takin ony notice
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a. Finiver he wan tae her, bi sniffin her oot like a terrier dug, s
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Regrettin sniffin quite so deeply when checkin (2013) search twitter