A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tilly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 2.5 13.3 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences165 9 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 2 2 2

Occurrences of tilly in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
n the stairs intae the empty. Tilly, the dug, wis oot the back. T on page 7

4 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
shment wis handed oot because Tilly failed tae write "fuck Boris (2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
fin hay tae rely on cunnul's, tilly lump's, paraffin heeter's en on page 4
p thi preshure fur feedin thi tilly lump we paraffin, fyle en thi on page 5
ruck aat match an fyrt up thi tilly, "Their weis licht an eit coo on page 7

8 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
some chum, Poppy or Millie or Tilly, will say ‘how was your vis
1 matches

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Böd, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
slips, da tilly lamp pleepses
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
astin wir ain paets, burnin a tilly lamp an aetin local maet dere
1 matches

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