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Use in varieties of Scots

rowan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 6 7.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1912 5 1 0 1 0
Number of authors15 10 3 1 1

Occurrences of rowan in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e the Muir Miln. For auld Tam Rowan the miller there tuik an aich on page 57

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ither side, aik and plane and rowan, and noo and then a sweet che on page 175

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
First years. We nevir grew a rowan tree, on page 198

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ah kin just aboot swatch the rowan tree in her garden. That lass on page 50

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
esay Bay, Bonnie Strathyre an Rowan Tree. Whitever they were, the on page 11

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 73 - The Stranger, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
in yae hand the rowan flouer on page 60

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
the Villanelle in Merle on a Rowan. His In Praise o Standart Hab
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
When fae the leafless rowan tree
He sat upon a rowan tree an sang wi aw his micht,
The wee bird sat in the rowan tree,
3 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
reid as roses, his neb like a rowan!
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
an o a her sangs, een abune "Rowan Tree|" or "The Lady Grange" o(2020) search twitter

Doric

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Little Blue Shoes'. A frond o rowan inside her Burns poems - she on page 22

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Lips as flushed as the rowan's reid berries on page 44

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Wi rowan tree weel fenced aboot
tude on't tae preen a sprig o rowan abeen the windae.
nots wad be dauncin, far the rowan stood wi her posies o sma fit
3 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
no left yet. A day fer raxan, rowan an restan the both o thir bod on page 141

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ng, Jimmy Nail, Alan Shearer, Rowan Atkinson, hmmmm, cannae remem(2020) search twitter