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Use in varieties of Scots

harp Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 1.5 0 5.8 0 13.3
Number of occurrences105 1 0 1 0 3
Number of authors8 4 1 1 2

Occurrences of harp in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
plin sounds o the strings o a harp. The black hole disappeared. on page 49
blew again an the music o the harp wis heard anew. on page 50

2 matches

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Played on a harp o fire. on page 57

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
prentit. Forby he editit The Harp of Renfrewshire, takkin an ow on page 69

1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
mething about threads and her harp and the cat. She’d phoned t
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
an flew throwe her dream wi a harp at its snawy briest, fur the
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
dy rollin harp o vowels. Whit loss. on page 19

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
French. Or the cello. Or the harp. Aye, that was it. Granda Ram on page 35

2 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Harp-strung wi hingman's raip. on page 16

1 matches

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