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mutton Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 6.9 4.8 9.9 40.7 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2513 3 1 7 0 1
Number of authors20 8 3 1 7 1

Occurrences of mutton in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Grabbing a yowe for mutton stew on page 34

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
hissell. Makin a fool ae her. Mutton dressed as lamb, she said. Oo on page 1

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
upped weel for a wee while on mutton stew an haggis. There wis nae on page 43
ower a plate o Isobel's best mutton stew, then prayers an psalms on page 44
her a wee aff-cut o the roast mutton they'd had upstairs on Setter on page 67
hame, efter a guid het meal o mutton brose an bannocks, Jennet los on page 76

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
r pork. Mair muckle sheep for mutton...' on page 62

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
'Whit dye think o the mutton guzzlers an winos noo?' on page 32

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hee-eep! Hings ye git wool an mutton aff ae.”
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
a het denner wi some reestit mutton in it. Ah can survive this, h
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
he couldnae make a stew wi’ mutton Ur sew a shurt oantae a butto
1 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
say, a hail gigot o mutton roastit wi aw the trimmins
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
I’d raither tred ye a leg o mutton for a copy . . . gin I like i
1 matches

Doric

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
. I canna be deein wi the aal mutton dressed as lamb image, or I w on page 94

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ruces war dairy fairmers, nae mutton fowk.
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Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
y laughin an the fine smell o mutton broth waffted fae the same pl
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ed half a dozen 'Holmy Sheep' mutton chops last week; a wether, 3- (2020) twitter link

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
We'll hae a tee o reestit mutton for Newer Day; kale soup an b on page 70

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Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
For milk we hid a coo and for mutton we hid twel sheep wha wid lam
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Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
agaen. Whit a spread o maet. Mutton, saat beef, tattie soup an pl
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@tattooedselkie tweeted
Got reestit mutton soup on the go. Having not ha(2021) search twitter

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dats my first reestit mutton o da winter on da boil. I lov(2013) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
e Announcement: it’s reestit mutton soup day at the Peerie Shop C(2018) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Makkin a peerie pot o reestit mutton soup fur newerdy #ReestitMutt (2018) twitter link

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
e danders tha loanens, a poor mutton-dummy on page 12

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