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Use in varieties of Scots

lonesome Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 4.3 1.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences98 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of lonesome in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
lonesome. 'Got any blaw, son?' he says on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
bag ae snow, leavin me oan ma lonesome. By the time they come the cl on page 104
d ah'm left tae ponder oan ma lonesome. As the very real prospect ae on page 168
kent it ah wis standin oan ma lonesome. Navigatin ma wey past aw the on page 188

3 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
e sae intimidated bi a single lonesome cowboy, things’d slither th
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
in a hoose that stood oan its lonesome, the streets coatit in snow.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
tae dae this mission oan his lonesome, eh? And lucky fur him it’s
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
utting a lonely picture,on Ma lonesome at the back of the beach wae (2019) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
win on his face an heard the lonesome cry o a peesie as he saa the on page 92

1 matches

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