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Use in varieties of Scots

cape Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 1.5 10.5 9.9 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences143 7 1 0 1 2
Number of authors9 3 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of cape in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
loss Schottenburg, his velvet cape flappin insteid o an auld gre on page 77

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Auld-farrant hair and cape and knee-breiks, on page 98

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@wildethingy Ah bocht a cape this year. This wan. https://(2020) search twitter

Doric

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
a gift fae his Cape Verdean grandfaither, on page 32
Argentinian. Cape Verdean. Aiberdeen. on page 33
fades tae black. Argentinian. Cape Verdean. Aiberdream... Ye'r s on page 34

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hair. Sally Bruce hid a tweed cape buttoned roon her neck, an a
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
tae get up early tae wash ma cape(2016) search twitter
here afore skittered ma yella cape awfa sotter.(2016) search twitter
STVAberdeen ? Whaurs ma wooly cape and thermal banana hammock?(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
or Cape Canaveral I discover on page 16

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
doon frae ae ferm job anenst Cape Wrath, richt i the tap Nor Wa
1 matches

Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
an pushed bak tha cowl o her cape. She wus gye oul an wrinkleâ€
wife sayed. She kiltit up her cape an John wus tuk bak at tha si
2 matches

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