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Use in varieties of Scots

enemy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.5 15.9 9 9.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4031 6 1 1 0 1
Number of authors28 20 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of enemy in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ma courage in the face ae the enemy. There's nae shame in takin a on page 44

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
- Man. Man is the anely real enemy we hae. Tak Man frae oot the on page 6

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Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wir enemy quaitly flee on page 77

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oudoun Hill till we sicht the enemy, an then haud a council o wat on page 36

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Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
BEST PAL - NO' YER KIN WURST ENEMY on page

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Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
An ma heid's infiltratit wae enemy spies on page 83

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
widnae inflict oan yur worst enemy. Hence, why ah only drink her on page 67

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Battle o Waterloo. Okay, her enemy wisnae Napoleon. But nacbody on page 131

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
xperts say it cin be heard bi enemy submarines a hunner mile awa. on page 121

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
politicans were sayin wis the enemy o the haill British nation. N on page 91

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
because they might faw intae enemy hauns an then the Germans wid on page 76

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
ma fiercest enemy! Rizzio's murderer on page 22
he fluided the enemy like a wave. on page 35

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Mesha the Moabite, the Enemy: on page 112

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Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
the front line and tak on the enemy, haund tae haund. He'd get up on page 17

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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ere they ate the stores o the enemy nation, an the sodgers learnt
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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
e wis bi blooterin intae some enemy.
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McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e. Aw’ the ithir times, the enemy had run when we chairged shou
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s. She’s a deid wumman. The enemy arena stipit, ye ken. Leuk, W
gaird every leevin male as an enemy ...”
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McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
p://wingsoverscotland.com/the-enemy-of-their-enemy/), the rush o
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
e pairts o the state as their enemy? As Christ said (folloaein Lo
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
an lined them up tae face the enemy. Ye’ll mibbe mind a marsh h

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
o usin a spy tae suss oot the enemy's movements.

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ence tae combat the invisible enemy. Nixt ah scoop the plates oaf
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@raiphsays tweeted
ine oot nane of em is reely a enemy... if you dinnae greet, yer a(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lowed - its against the auld enemy lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Thi sea's yer enemy, Thi sea's yer freen on page 35

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n nairret er een es er aulest enemy jined the queue fir tickets: on page 59

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Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
r't tae score against the aul enemy.
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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
sober, takk tent, because yer enemy the Divil as a roarin lion wa
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Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
save him fae rinnin intae the enemy machine guns he’d tae be he
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Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
his shooders Wully faced the enemy jist as he did aa the years a
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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Through enemy strewn, he cam, on page 6

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
da cosh sun is an enemy an spreads on page 97

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Lang tim' veesion can bae the enemy o' shoart tim' ection ir tie on page 22

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