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Use in varieties of Scots

provost Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.7 21.6 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences4442 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors12 10 1 1

Occurrences of provost in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The Provost pit him tae the test wi a cup on page 27

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
e'r aiven a passage intil the Provost's private ruim whaur his cock on page 26

14 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e celebrations brocht oot the Provost, Alex Riddoch, an the crowd s on page 122

4 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
rnickety Crescent. Forby, the Provost o Fantooshopolis isna here ye on page 9

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Provost Andra Ramsay couldnae haud on page 112

8 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The Provost an Cooncil, aa asteer, on page 55

1 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 57 - Jimsie’s Maw’s Soup, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
Said the Provost "Let's see, but listen tae me on page 29

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
for denner wi provost Archibald Stewart, on page 50

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
oponed to thame by the prsent provost baillies and counsall of Edin
1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Galt fae Irvine scrievin The Provost garred us feel that we were f
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
he seeventeent century Glesca provost Sir
form o the Provost, Baillie an Toun Clerk tries
the weemin in the form o the Provost's wife, Lady Mirren,
Provost's maids, that haed been giein
or be hingit" warks an the Provost mairries the pair on the spot
8 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ashed an caimbed as gran as a provost's. Her ma wis preenin a wide,
1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
o us! Ah wis telt be the Hon Provost tae stop yaesin “wursels, we(2019) search twitter