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Use in varieties of Scots

rainy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 3.6 6 29.8 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences157 4 3 0 0 1
Number of authors14 7 3 3 1

Occurrences of rainy in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Rainy, pishy days like this, we alw on page 4

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That rainy nicht up on the moor. on page 110

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Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
uld uise tae descrive it wis "rainy". Weel, as ah nou ken, the be
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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ingies he must be savin fur a rainy day.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Even if it's a rainy day
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e’ll cross that bridge some rainy day, hmm?” She leukit aroon
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@jax6754 tweeted
proud. Huggggggggssssss fae a rainy and windy Scotland. xxx(2015) search twitter

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Savin up yer siller fir a rainy day, giein aa yer cleys tae c on page 178

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
some sewin for me bit, yon rainy days I wis so fed up I sat do
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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Rainy rainy rattlesteens
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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
shades o green - except on a rainy day, on page 48

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Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ng strong. It has been rather rainy again, and made the ground ra on page 37

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Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Oan Sunday shae pat oan her rainy cot on page 115

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Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Tae iverie rainy cloud. on page 38

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