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The word 'snaws'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snawsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 2
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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)

Occurrences of snaws in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
an keep yer erse warm when it snaws.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Snell Winter's snaws are fled, leaves oan the shaw on page 216

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Winter's snaws depairt, an the green shoots on page 16
Snell Winters snaws are fled, leaves oan the shaw on page 149

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Mony snaws retour oan thair mony wunds; on page 14

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ter his sheep frae the winter snaws. on page 50
That winter, the furst snaws fell in November, an the last on page 56

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Winter’s snaws depairt, an the green shoots
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
The mair it snaws on page 1
is hoo it sterts. The mair it snaws, tiddely pom - ' on page 4
"Did ye no say snaws?" on page 5

4 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ntid: the mair haws, the mair snaws, a gey wee gairden that fir b on page 134

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
eiges d’antan? Whaur are the snaws o yesteryear?(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah'm the woolly pleuch o the snaws. on page 65

1 matches

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