A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

stirs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 1.5 19.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences62 1 2 0 1 0
Number of authors6 2 1 2 1

Occurrences of stirs in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
r oan the sun-shield, an Iona stirs in the back, the sun inescapa on page 3

1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
amieFairbairn1 Braw.. It fair stirs the bluid tae here the skirl (2023) twitter link

Doric

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
by aathing aat stirs inside ye, lean intae it, on page 26

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
r an nivver been. Thir mither stirs the protein soup an says feen on page 39

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Mother stirs hersael a bit an nods. on page 38

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A silence stirs, there's no a peep on page 38

1 matches

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