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Use in varieties of Scots

puddles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.6 4.5 19.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences125 3 2 1 0 1
Number of authors10 4 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of puddles in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
this treatie, seys he, whiles puddles o gowden tears formit aneath on page 14

1 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
Puddles wur jumpin aroond the sparky'
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
he Gairden, fleeted throu the puddles o gless. Even in his gutties,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
f a wet astro pitch wae a few puddles ffs lol (2021) twitter link
lking on the road through the puddles lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Puddles a wye nae a bonny sicht,
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
fair enjoyed hearing you loup puddles. #FitBonny x(2015) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
st ma dug aye find the mockit puddles tae loup in an hiv a guid cla(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The rutted tracks that were puddles a month ago on page 16
Laevan icy puddles an greener fields on page 115

2 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
we caa'd de drooned wirms in puddles dat at de schöl, I'm no sure(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
thon, the watterfa turned tae puddles. Lake the wie ye’d whiles f
1 matches

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