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stride Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 8.7 7.5 19.9 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2717 5 2 2 0 1
Number of authors20 12 3 2 2 1

Occurrences of stride in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Gainin grund wi every stride on page 17

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Pit aff his stride a wee, the King luikt across on page 44

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Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
An easy-osie stride. on page 25

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o the glen wi the lang swift stride o a hill-man, keppin weel aff on page 32
the brae wi that lang herd's stride o his, an disappeared smertly on page 59

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
eemed tae be gettin intae his stride. on page 122

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ut ye took things then in yer stride, ye see on page 70

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
but wance she gets intae hur stride, she looks doon and makes eye on page 114

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Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ilka stride he wis spangin ower a burn.
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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
shuv ma bunnet on, and get a stride on tae go catch the bus.
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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
p fur their messages; punters stride purposefully intae the bookie
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ids ma descent an each leapin stride is accompanied by visions ay
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. He’s reachin oot wae each stride, swipin and scratchin doon th
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ae interest hiz quickened hiz stride. He slips hiz hauns intae bla
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
an some goal or jist the next stride,
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Tae stride alang,
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
e the whistlin. She began tae stride across the grass, movin wae g
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
Aitken wis gaan gyte. Wi one stride he’d got haud o him, an pul
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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
en grave’ll tak this in his stride nae bother.’
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Sittin stride-legs ower a style . . .
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wisna sae much a lowp as a stride.
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Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
a’ his work tee’n in his stride
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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Stride through the fields wae aixes on page 43

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Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
that - i could tak hid in me stride. on page 58

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
me run-up. Be da penultimate stride, I kent hit wisna gaein ta wi
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Sutherland, Stella Half a Twalmont, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
Cock’s stride at Yule,
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Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Jaist taks it in it's stride. on page 50

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