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Use in varieties of Scots

crisis Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 9.3 9 19.9 5.8 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences3018 6 2 1 1 2
Number of authors25 16 4 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of crisis in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ctin til whit wis: that wis a crisis in the direction o pleyscriev on page 40

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Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause there wasnae a crisis wae her, on page 13

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
a three quid and sixty pence crisis loan. Then, there's this midd on page 124

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
s fae oorsels in the economic crisis that follaeit on fae the Dari on page 80

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
New uttered in a crisis o the breith on page 127
This nicht's the fever crisis for us aw, sae kneel. on page 128

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
man bute bloody useless in a crisis. 'Sandra and Cathy cleared th on page xvi

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Identity crisis? Whit identity crisis? A ken on page 31

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
fell financial crisis. Dae we need onie mindin? Spe on page 10

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
aein afore lang if the energy crisis isnae sortit oot), so it wis
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Christmas Crisis
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Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
sae than at times o national crisis. Turn on BBC Pairliament ony
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
eadin poverty an beggin fur a crisis loan tae paiy his bills. His
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
deal wi the unco humanitarian crisis unfauldin on oor doorstap, an
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Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
it sae weill that it forced a crisis, a revolutionary situation. I
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Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ither kintras, the financial crisis haes made the establishment p
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
a short years afore the final crisis. But boy it hud an effect.

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e's haein ane o yon 'mid-life crisis' thingies. He's bin makkin ma on page 13

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
FUEL CRISIS
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ll whilk wis inspired refugee crisis https://t.co/ZBGnQywVpT https(2017) search twitter
eeking the Doric for Mid Life Crisis. Dist onyone ken?(2017) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
Crisis at Parkheid the nicht(2020) search twitter
@dlumsden @youngwd1 A wee crisis ti spik aboot lads also Barne(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And a crisis o identity - he sleeps amang on page 50

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Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ae draem tae the tither, fae crisis tae revolution. In waarm wakk on page 142

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ls, an even trowe da pandemic crisis eenoo. A example o da first e on page 9

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Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
his landmark shop survive the crisis ?? https://t.co/YMtCLsYbIi(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
f Ulster" aboot the Hame Rule crisis. http://t.co/1pt0C7yr0c (2015) twitter link
#syria #gaza #crimea, or ony crisis ava: http://t.co/HV6BaObZp1 (2014) twitter link