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The word 'growes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
growesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.73119
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of growes in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
airms birn. His een tift. He growes shairper. on page 29
y an bonnie, the more her uim growes, whill the traitor stylus nae on page 94

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
heddir tips at dey lack aetin growes faster i da lee o da raiseens on page 91

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
een o them. Gin att's foo God growes ee girse, growin in e park e on page 102

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
but the auld aye growes new;
1 matches

General Northern

Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
The while ma freen growes in his cell on page 74

5 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
pairt, onythin that lives an growes, an ye hurt the hale thing. Y on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And the daurk fisher's boat Growes ti a ghaist-ship on the seas: on page 29
there's a luve that siccarlie growes caulder on page 42

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
ertit frae, and my blitheness growes day bi day on page 25

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
s verra laich tempers, an ern growes
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
greed fir gowd. As yer walth growes on page 107

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
he anely resoorce we hiv that growes wi uise. Sae in 2019, uise it
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
An ilka coorse fauseheid growes on the thrive;
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
te-like. “It’s a weed. It growes easily, onywhaur. It’s no n
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Doun here whaur naithin growes but dree on page 22
It bluims an growes until the gairden's bricht on page 24

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
a flooer, o whilk the ae ane growes amang millions an millions o on page 30

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Day eftir day ma silken gouns growes lowss.
The sun growes warm lyke.
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Fur he growes tha craps an rairs tha mate t on page 22

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whar hairtsome gledness growes. on page 12
Afore tha scaldie growes its ain on page 33

3 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Growes arms an legs as it gaes ain. on page 22
That growes an maves tae Simmer, pittin W on page 48

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a gye wee seed, yit whan ït growes, ït becums a big biish an th on page 9

1 matches

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