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Use in varieties of Scots

sprig Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of sprig in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
a guid sprig o thyme on page 68

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
rsome, tae pouss a bonnie wee sprig towart the sun. on page 22

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
in the watter the sprig o yew that wis nailed tae the
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
el, an stude on't tae preen a sprig o rowan abeen the windae.
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
waved at Sally, who was lik a sprig o holly in a lang, bottle-gre on page 1

1 matches

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