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Use in varieties of Scots

slope Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 8.5 6.4 9.9 0 54.7 4.4
Number of occurrences2716 4 1 0 5 1
Number of authors15 9 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of slope in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oot his motor. Noo thur's the slope or the steps. He's gottae pic on page 1

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
irdit him oan a bricht, sunny slope, on page 21

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
nts in racin skies abuin each slope on page 129

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
irdit him oan a bricht, sunny slope,
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
it-levels for the Easter road slope o a playin-grund that separat
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
nt ah walk taewards the steep slope behind the bothy an intae the
ers as ah edge further up the slope diggin in wae ma heels fur tr
2 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Chic McHendry fell oan this slope last year an broke his bloody
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
We staun, surveyin the slope doon tae the burn, tryin tae
ay his patter an make fur the slope, ignorin the cunt. Ma diversi
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
amang the trees on the steep slope o Killiecrankie watchin a dif
the fact we wur sittin on the slope whaur much o the action taen

@g_hibby tweeted
ldsiain Hi Iain.. We're oan a slope here, so ye see the rainwater (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ck with it. Hence the nursery-slope rhetoric today - she's got t (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
tifications I'm on a slippery slope ?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
thir lairnin legs doon silken slope. on page 80

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
stand o trees, makkin for the slope o a wee hill they caa'ed The on page 12

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
"An on the slope a hoose will stan’
"An on the slope a hoose did stan
2 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
n Watch yersel beuy. Slippery slope n'all(2020) search twitter

Southern

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ump se high tae git ontae the slope. They still hev tae soom up t
hey still hev tae soom up the slope, though, unless they've been
the ladder in the middle. The slope hes stanes cemented ontae eet
sei laddies rinnin' ontae the slope wi muckle hooks tied tae stic
hint end a' the road doon the slope and intae the white witter at
5 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
fa weel or are ain a doonward slope. on page 11

1 matches

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