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Use in varieties of Scots

amiss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 2.6 7.5 29.8 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences165 5 3 3 0 0
Number of authors13 4 3 3 3

Occurrences of amiss in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a borin cunt that widna go amiss, on page 3
yi will go amiss. on page 31

2 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
ed bi 'OOT' - that widna gan amiss.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
r tae the Cooncil widnae gaun amiss!
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n o the match - a saw nuthin amiss n av seen sum rakers in ma ti (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n he noticed aat somethin wis amiss. on page 60

1 matches

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ommon courtesy widna hiv come amiss. Onywye, it wis a terrible ta
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
there wis nae sign o onything amiss, tho thon could hae bin a lee
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d, Pat Duguid cud fin naethin amiss, nae as muckle's a warnin fur
a wee quinie o daein onythin amiss…they wad hae acceptit the r
2 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
a coo that something hid gaen amiss wae. on page 13

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
here's bound tae be sometheen amiss. on page 43

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
dae they sense sometheen's amiss? on page 144

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
As if naethin wis amiss, he'd hirpilt, on page 30

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
nockin I kent der wis sometin amiss. We haaled, an up cam da bag,
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lcloth or laminate widna geng amiss.
1 matches

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