snakes | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 10.6 | 9.8 | 7.5 | 0 | 17.4 | 31 | 17.7 | |
Number of occurrences | 34 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
Number of authors | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
thrawed intae a pit o writhin snakes, and whan the serpents wadna on page 14
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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
starin een an lang hair, like snakes writhin in seek, loomit ower on page 66
stanin cen an lang hair like snakes writhin in seek. Its great ru on page 69
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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Come on, we'll hae a gemm at Snakes and Ledders?" or "Hoo did ye on page 2
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Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
uld, Hera pit twa lang hissin snakes intae his bedroom. The wean, on page 1
d the braith richt oot o thae snakes and flung their bums oot the on page 2
nd chapped aff yin o the nine snakes. It fell ontae the flair wi a on page 12
nine back wriggled thoosans o snakes, spittin oot poison wi jaggie on page 51
n clawed by lions, skelped by snakes, tellt aff by gods, blootered on page 53
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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
gemm o ‘Snakes an Ledders’ ye’l can gang
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
ayas in the compound, deidlie snakes in the flouer-bauks, scarlet
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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Folliein the muddy trail that snakes through the nettles an foliag
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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
els. It luiked tae Kat like a snakes-an-ladders board gane gyte. I
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Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
ple her. Lang seggs like iley snakes straikit her bonnie hair. Dro on page 119
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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
owed us eence. Aa bluey-green snakes, an dragons, an daggers, an t
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hir hair wis a heeze o blaik snakes aa hissin an spittin, an her
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
his sherp fangs. Snakes like Angus are blate bodies,
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Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
yis tha thortie tae thramp on snakes an scorpions an tae owercum t on page 88
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@the_gellick tweeted
k is that #StPatrick redd the snakes oot o Airlann; hooaniver, the (2015) twitter link