| shears | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 3.7 | 12 | 7 |
| ORK - Orkney | |||
| SHD - Shetland | |||
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | 16.3 | 5 | 3 |
| MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
| SNO - South Northern | |||
| ABN - Aberdeen | |||
| DOR - General Northern | |||
| NEC - North East Central | |||
| SEC - (South) East Central | 12.8 | 5 | 2 |
| WCE - West Central | |||
| DUN - Dundee | 10.6 | 1 | 1 |
| EDN - Edinburgh | |||
| GLA - Glasgow | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 1.3 | 1 | 1 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | |||
| 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) | |||
| EUL - East Antrim (Larne) | |||
| GUL - General Ulster | |||
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ppit his tea, he tuik oot his shears an a fang o yalla paper, an
luggit as he laid by the shears.
dragon. He hid teeth like shears, feet like a puddock, an a mo
3 matches
Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
zers, bastin threid an pinkin shears.
1 matches
Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
he herd at Toombucht, wi' his shears--she had trysted Ecky withoot
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