shaves | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 4.7 | 1 | 19.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 15 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 5 | 2 | 3 |
McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Survived so many close shaves,
1 matches
Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
n fowk tae mak a richt squad. Shaves were biggit
an it teen twa lads tae fork shaves aff
uck on tae thrashin mull. Yon shaves were set upon be twa lousers,
he binder twine an handed the shaves tae the feeder. Shaves were
tae the feeder. Shaves were
5 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. The McPhails hid bin forkin shaves aa foreneen inno the fairm ca
a its mechanical clivverness. Shaves cut doon bi the scythemen, sl
is wife tae help him lift the shaves frae the grun, an load them i
auns war needit tae stook the shaves, settin them up on eyn, stibb
yn, stibble tae stibble, echt shaves tae a stook, set north tae so
7 matches