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Use in varieties of Scots

say's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words41.8 0.5 199.9 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1361 134 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of say's in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Pits her airms aroond me and say's 'It's ladle!' before proceedi on page 36

1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
it oot." "Go fur cit," Muskcy say's. So we aat, Skim baaket thi t on page 6
we started catchen up, Baggy say's "Fit's eih joker up tel?" Fyl on page 11
it we gan tae dee noo?" Baggy say's, eis thi Trust weis getten cl on page 12
ul leed patches widna ceoor," say's Baggy. Fitiver, thi Charm wei on page 13
said "'Fit's a dee?'"' So aty say's ""Did ye nae see fit happint on page 17
Also on pages 18, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 64, 65
133 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
upon her bag, Jonsar say's "Ere's ae thing certain lass,
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Whit yae say's awa' abaen mae, on page 33

1 matches

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