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Use in varieties of Scots

saed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words56.6 2.5 0 39.7 0 0 770.1
Number of occurrences1835 0 4 0 0 174
Number of authors7 2 3 2

Occurrences of saed in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an saed he'd be hame fur dinner on page 39
Airt eemitates life sae it's saed on page 44
faur less saed on page 45

3 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
wis the hatred in onythin Ah saed? Whaur dae ye get thon deep s (2022) twitter link
n "Generation" pish, we ne'er saed thon. https://t.co/ZQsImT7pFh (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He lay doon an saed, 'Gae the men thirs, on page 72
I luvved that cot, shae saed, on page 101

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
r lucky teeble.' Cheerios are saed... and shaes off. 'Lucky teeb on page 86

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ritirs an langwach activists, saed thit “abdee sweeches”. Or
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
peart tae hïm ïn a draim an saed, "Joseph, sinn o Davit, dïnn on page 1
"In Bethlehem o Judea," the' saed, "fer thïs ïs whut tha proa on page 2
sae ït cum tae pass whut wus saed bi tha proaphits: "He wull be on page 3
in. "Cum an follae me," Jesus saed, "an A wull mak ye fïshers o on page 4
Yis hae heerd that ït wus saed tae fowk lang syne, 'Dïnnae on page 5
Also on pages 6, 8, 9, 82
125 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
‘Ah'm bored.’ ah saed tae Mammy.
‘Ye dinnae know?’ she saed. ‘What aboot a game that yo
ey’re roon the back,’ she saed as she birled a buttercup in
‘Ye must lik butter,’ ah saed, an Jenny leuked up an gien m
Ah'm fed up wi BMXing,’ ah saed.
49 matches

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