A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

starter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.3 3 5.9 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences116 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 6 2 1

Occurrences of starter 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.

Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
a text, therr a conversation starter. Greggs he approves ay. It gi on page 3

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
"Tell Sweeney it's a non-starter. You can take a horse and all on page 1

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh thought eh wiz a non-starter on page 114

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Last starter for ten.” auld Bamber said,
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
lMcF @davcr Goin recommend a 'starter' David Crystal book fir me pl(2016) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
s ghaist stories. Braw lesson starter fir scrievin! https://t.co/VC (2017) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Noo we didna hay an electric starter lyke maist fowk, So we wurket on page 20
leev on a slope eis a baak up starter. She run jist fyne eence she on page 50

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ing wrang wi it. Took aff the starter, gaed it a clean,
Jonsar tried the starter the engine simply sprang inta
2 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Wir starter is spare ribs,” she declare
1 matches

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