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Use in varieties of Scots

ours Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 7.4 1.6 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1614 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of ours 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ere hus a fuckin hideout like ours. It's creepy-lookin, a mad da on page 4
ss slots 'sessions' n we call ours 'periods: Yi wid hear them sa on page 36

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
GO-D NEIGH - OURS on page 169

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
g, wrate thaim.We wared monie ours siffin throu the notts an eft on page 11

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
wes alang the cost, an herin ours weill spak o, A suppone, an d on page 4
irit, craw-bogil o a peratt o ours, sittin ferr gane wi rumb, wi on page 7

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
owre schortsum. A gruche the ours whan A maun slepe. Thai say i on page 1

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Throu simmer’s gowden ours.
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
smaw ours. Tammas Grunstane wesna leise
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
buy into a scheme like ours.”
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
res aw ower the toun. We haed ours on the causey stanes at the t
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
eway came near all the way to ours without so much as a by your
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@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ere messagin a good friend of ours and didnae realise the time. (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the borders r shut - its all ours lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ean, in this great country of ours we have access to - an' aabo
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the rest of us can't look for ours," an "Some of us never had a on page 137

1 matches

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