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Use in varieties of Scots

touches Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 8.7 1.5 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2117 1 2 1 0 0
Number of authors17 13 1 2 1

Occurrences of touches in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
Somebdy touches ma elbow. Mrs Casey, ma mum's on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
o belong tae me. And naeboady touches ma pals withoot peying fur th on page 199

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Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
settin the finishin touches on page 133

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Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Efter a saicont or twa she touches ma airm. Touches ma airm, can
ma airm. Touches ma airm, can ye imagine? A tu
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
eduction scene, when Tartuffe touches Elvire's knee, pretendin tae
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Donovan touches on the maitter o the colonisa
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Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
it in naitur as the things it touches, fae the blimmin o the yellae
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ngland an Scotland, acause it touches on oor lifes even tae the day
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Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
man decorum noo?” add licht touches o humour tae whit is generall
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
This touches on jist sum o the weys that A
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ney whaur yer mooth is haurly touches whit went on. In fact it wis

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
rn frae history. Hoo it still touches the day.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
far awa as we think and still touches us today ... And nae aye in a

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
aw silent afore the ball even touches the net. The whole stadium, t
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@rattlecans tweeted
God I hope no. Everything she touches burns tae the ground... the c (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- a wid defo hae a go - the touches r still there! (2021) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cky to have a job that really touches people - really makes a diff on page 44

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Øyvind touches Astrid's airm. on page 10

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Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
endless feeneesheen touches on page 36

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Come du an see da feenishin touches," shü said ta me. , on page 48

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