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Use in varieties of Scots

frogs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 2.6 0 0 46.5 0 4.4
Number of occurrences145 0 0 8 0 1
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of frogs in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause sometimes frogs are preferable compared wae p on page 72

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Dancin Frogs on page 35

4 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
A voar highlight is frogs gadderin in da loch tae laeve
dere when I wis a young trow. Frogs hiv been in Shetland for litt
amorphosis fae tadpoles intae frogs is laek naethin idder. So I t
I axed him aboot da history o frogs in Shetland an if he kent ony
hunder year ago dere wis nae frogs in Shetland. Human folk took
7 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Gairdins I Sand. Gazillions o frogs and frogspawn and a few tadpo(2016) search twitter

Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Frogs an snells, on page 32

1 matches

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