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Use in varieties of Scots

quill Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.2 0 19.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1512 0 2 0 1 0
Number of authors12 10 1 1

Occurrences of quill 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
he West Lothian Poetry Group, Quill , the suggestit homework wis on page 3

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Wi nocht but a quill for ma grievance! on page 47

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
forcin him tae fouter wi his quill an drap his gaze, "Ihis is na on page 40
The meenister turned ower the quill pen atween his richt thoum an on page 41

2 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Like a loadit quill pen, on page 200

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
He grups the quill, quiverin wi anticipation on page 56

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
he watched Violet tak a lang quill pen fae Coont Olaf. Violet's on page 144

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
The quill wagtailed the Provost's signa on page 112

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
he time that John Barbour pit quill tae parchment in the 1370’s
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Symbolically, she hauds a quill and a buik. Mairower, echoin
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
t Burns will be sherpenin his quill for James McKinlay himsel whe
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
afore he'd even sorted oot a quill fur himsel (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
t and ran doon tae his peedie quill
Assipattle took his quill and rowed hid tae the sandy s
2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
tate. (sei A, page 163-anenst Quill Pens).
1 matches

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