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Use in varieties of Scots

proverb Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of proverb in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
this far. Bit there's an auld proverb we micht cuid dae wi takkin t on page 96

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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
te sacan los ojos": a Spanish proverb (often applied to ungreatful (2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
's place names, share a Scots proverb, or keek through a wee windae (2018) twitter link
' Whit's your favourite Scots proverb? Jist wan o the activities fi (2017) twitter link
rners! Three - Share a Scots proverb: https://t.co/BHyWJWkFhO Get (2017) twitter link

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
m, "Nae doot ye'll be sayin e proverb till ma, 'Physeecian heal yer on page 86

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