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Use in varieties of Scots

plaid Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 8.2 3 19.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2216 2 2 1 1 0
Number of authors13 8 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of plaid in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
and the hills aw aboot were a plaid, green and gowden, russet and on page 2

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
will slide intae a plaid as weel. on page 68

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
dressed, happit up in a warm plaid, an cairrit by her faither th on page 30
ous, wi wee John happt in her plaid, an a batch o bannocks on the on page 46
in her back throu the woollen plaid happt roun her shouders, she on page 67
ire an weel happt up ina warm plaid; Jennet fand hersel prayin ha on page 71
in the yowes. Happin her wool plaid ticht roun her shouders agin on page 76
Also on pages 81
7 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
cots custom o wearin a kilted plaid wi bare shanks an nae breiks. on page 14

2 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
they teuk awa ma plaid, on page 11

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
An happit weel in shawl an plaid, on page 141

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
gnificant influence (the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the Greens), it simply
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e SNP wins big i Scotland, an Plaid Cymru an the Greens taks, say
1 matches

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
it her blanket roond her as a plaid, pit her feet in her brogans,
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
o thi caravaan, an eis lad he plaid a gectaar an sung, eit weis a on page 34

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
aidies an kilts, their siller plaid preens glimmrin in the sun, b
1 matches

Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
pittan oan the plaid, he'd teen fae wan o them. on page 6

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
some wi a luik o plaid, an ivry een on page 92

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Thay spread ma plaid an Ah liggit in the porch. on page 40

1 matches

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