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Use in varieties of Scots

cal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.3 2 27 0 0 0 35.4
Number of occurrences304 18 0 0 0 8
Number of authors12 3 5 4

Occurrences of cal 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

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
gliskin an cal lik frost on page 9

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
labelled on arrival, grannies cal tae thir shilbit banes, wir y on page 24

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
es when the winter weather is cal and frosty ootside and nippin
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
truith - they were a medi-~ cal detail takin casualties fae C
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
tteren heis. Eit weis freezen cal, an kreepee, cus thi rail's o on page 4
t hait air an fyre up, lyke a cal start. Weel eit wurket fyne, on page 12
Thi sea is weet, Thi sea is cal on page 35
full thi bottle's we water an cal tae. Thain we Iiokket up an h on page 39
m fur a curn acroo. So en thi cal dark winteree mornen's we fyr on page 50
Also on pages 51, 57, 59, 60, 61, 69
14 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
yer han - up te yer erse in cal water." on page 34

1 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
Callum? Yer daener’s steen cal!" skerls his mam.
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
in am jist jei'lt (feelin' th cal, frozen)(2014) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
passed doon the generations. Cal fire on en ah!(2017) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Less tha 'cal' be lood an strang. on page 28

1 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha furst follaers gets tha cal on page 77
Levi gets tha cal on page 78

2 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Tho' o' haes cal'in he wis proud, on page 12
Al'wiys cal'd thim fish; on page 23
They hae' started cal'in'Wullie mister, on page 26
Tae a place cal'd ooter space; on page 39

4 matches

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
wain a snaked intae whut wis cal,d tha guid room...oany used a
1 matches

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