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Use in varieties of Scots

swang Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences52 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of swang 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

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Agane, wi ilkane wird, shae swang at Tam’s wi hir poke bot he
the houss swang ajie gaed ben an ett the pali
2 matches

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
The boorach o boys swang their heids roond tae see far on page 74

1 matches

Orkney

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
got a naafil fright whin hid swang open and me peedie brither fe
1 matches

Shetland

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
As shu swang roond, he felt trowe his feet
1 matches

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