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Use in varieties of Scots

cows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of cows in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
lthy burds n mad rough scheme cows alike. The only time yi see i on page 44

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
f cause a somethin tae dae wi cows been sacred an ah wisnae sure on page 86

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mine's a speed that cows the wind, on page 57

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ads mere an see these two wee cows doon the stair. Whit wid ye d
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
oo 'a cow' or five coos 'five cows', bit da kye is da collective on page 48

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
uld dae richtly for giein the cows a skelp on the erse! #QuareSt (2015) twitter link