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Use in varieties of Scots

cow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.4 17.5 13.6 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences4634 9 0 1 0 2
Number of authors18 12 4 1 1

Occurrences of cow 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
inside her tap. 'Senile auld cow.' Her boyfriend is still joos on page 8

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
wans yi hear ir total fuckin cow dung. A few ae them ir true b on page 10

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mafia. That Nicola Sturgeon, cow. Takin every opportunity that on page 55
That's her, eh? cow's upped oan her taes and left on page 59
nae word fae Justine, fuckin cow. And ah swear doon if ah find on page 66

3 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
auntie Sharon shout efter us, Cow. on page 174

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d Missus Auldhill wis an auld cow cause she made her clean aw t on page 34
Cow, said Charlene. Yi better wat on page 48
said. Shut it ya dirty Fenian cow yi. Who wis that, ah said aft on page 66
his tape in Home Ec aboot mad cow disease an it's pit me aff me on page 85
e measure, an then the cheeky cow in the next yin said ma size on page 96
Also on pages 103, 112, 151, 169
16 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
er heard of it. You got a pet cow? Or should I say coo?! on page 2

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O skeel tae cow ma aefauld gossamer? on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
O skeel ti cow ma aefauld gossamer? on page 60

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
142 Heelan Cow freedge magnets on page 48

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
y Me an By Yon Castle Waa wad cow the gowan. on page 77

1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
Charlene that she called me a cow behind ma back but she never
1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
“Quick.” An oot afore the cow could stop us. The night.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
mafia. That Nicola Sturgeon, cow. Takin every opportunity that
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s tidy though, in a stuck-up cow kinda waiy, ah mean ah’d ri
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e puckin owl. Senga, the dosy cow. Ah’ve travelled aw the way
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ed if ah’m gonnae. The poor cow’ll find oot who she’s nei
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
g determined tae mak Scotland cow tow tae his demands. It hud b

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
beef, ..it wis efter yon Mad Cow disease." on page 32

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
“Cow. Show me a cow,” she speired.
tae trick him. There wisna a cow on the table. Dauvit hid nive
uvit hid niver heard the word cow used o onythin on thon table.
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d in his shell hole. That wid cow-the-gowan richt enough if yin
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
e if i'm tired or jist a lazy cow(2011) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
, we can spaek aboot a coo 'a cow' or five coos 'five cows', bi on page 48

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
accent "How now brown cow, indeed," said Maisie. "Ihere on page 13

2 matches

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