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Use in varieties of Scots

horrors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 7.2 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1814 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors14 11 2 1

Occurrences of horrors 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

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
tled tae droon oot the morn's horrors on page 5

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
tae the tap flair tae see wit horrors await me. Ah mind wance, me a on page 104

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
HOUSE OF HORRORS on page 27
edy exit. Ootae this house ae horrors, they caw: The Bookies. on page 45

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
remindin aulder fowk that the horrors they heard o fae their ain pa on page 96

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Horrors, horrors yet... on page 20

2 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
an the monie horrors she haed seen an tholed. Syne
at haed tholed siclike horrors hissel, an thay made a creepi
2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
keep aff the horrors. Something to dae wi auld Mr
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
he outside warld kent, an sic horrors couldnae cairry on. Sellar’
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
riverebbs past Spiked war horrors
1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ar richt weel educatit on the horrors o clearance bi wey o exposure
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
gy ye should pit oot oan they horrors is tae block them though... t(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t, their ain back yairds bred horrors waur nur onythin Africk cud c
hid vrocht a charnel hoose o horrors. The heid yins o the Septile
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
wheel een side and i Hoose o Horrors on i ither. #doric #teuchter (2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ower da pier. Jessie wis i da horrors a drink at da time - in fact on page 44

1 matches

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