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Use in varieties of Scots

paths Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 9.3 10.6 19.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2918 7 2 1 0 1
Number of authors24 15 5 2 1 1

Occurrences of paths in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
safer as the familiar fields, paths n trees welcome yi back tae h on page 48

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
paths wiv teuk on page 44

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Paths? They were pads when Ah strav on page 15
bide in Ainster, paths doon not down on page 17

2 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
forest paths lined wi ranks o trees, strai on page 192

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
blue uniform. Ah'd wanted our paths tae cross again, but this was on page 85

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
doon the camp road an through paths an fermers' fields till we go on page 120

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Paths tae be prood o! The rowth o t on page 43

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
shair that fowk kept tae the paths. on page 95
e widd - there were nae trig paths leadin through it, and the fl on page 97

2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
of peacocks an the lang harlt paths rinnin alang tae a muckle swa
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
here, we war gled tae see the paths dry an weel eneuch lit. We co
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
es, an alang stoorie moontain paths, lowpin ower boulders an dook
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
O’ paths an’ crag an’ contours,
1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
y popular wi walkers, yit the paths aroond its maist popular hill
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tae come in ower the muntain paths, they spent maist o thair tim
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
nce the day we first croassed paths. The perr wee might’s been
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@JHill_Official Until oor paths prayfully cross yin day, hope(2015) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
nae wey ye could mak oot the paths. He walked on across girse an on page 32

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
eedin, shiftin steens, makkin paths. There wis nae girse in it na on page 35

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
e aal skinflint, fanivver wir paths cross. Mony's the time Ah've on page 110

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
“Mind yersel, the paths a wheen skytie! A dinnae want
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
The twa Chrisses, wi twa paths: forrit and ayont.
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
aboot it noo and wind up when paths cross(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e mair words you hae the mair paths tae the herts o ithers. Bonni (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And, aalways, when wir twa paths cross, you hae a lot tae say. on page 83

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Paths devoid o vegetation. on page 16

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
limbed da hill. Wi a choice o paths, da bairns ran aff wan wye, s
1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
the leevin'; But thon Glen's paths alane A'll tread, Nae mair by (2018) twitter link