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Use in varieties of Scots

blows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 3.7 1.6 0 0 10.9 13.3
Number of occurrences127 1 0 0 1 3
Number of authors10 5 1 1 3

Occurrences of blows in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
ae heated words, they cam tae blows on page 18

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
min towards us as the referee blows his whistle tae signal the en on page 110
h start geein him a few boady blows. Until finally ah throw him d on page 146
ind comes oot ae naewhere and blows an empty coke boattle at him, on page 153

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
, tilts it back, Then saftly, blows! on page 32

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Miss Bruce blows hur whistle. There's a lassie on page 10

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ate afternoon, and the gazebo blows awa tae Norway?(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
possible till say whether e blows hort id or no. on page 57

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
impossible tae say whither th blows hurt eet or no. on page 58

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Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
t yae cudnae tell whather the blows hurt it or naw. on page 59

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McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Fur thair's bums an blows that rins aboot like Kings o on page 12

1 matches

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
The grass is still froze, she blows steam fae hir nose, man,
1 matches

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