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Use in varieties of Scots

seaweed Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 2.1 6 19.9 29.1 0 8.9
Number of occurrences174 4 2 5 0 2
Number of authors13 4 3 2 3 1

Occurrences of seaweed in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the tang o saut and seaweed frae Kirkmaiden shore. on page 25

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
aw white an' still-like, wi' seaweed fur his hair, driftin' doon a on page 16

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
A lane stalk o seaweed, on page 200

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d, Wibbit a big bunch a slimy seaweed. on page 112

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
uce served on a bed of crispy seaweed. on page 36

2 matches

Harper, Edith The Wye Athin Chynges, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric, poetry
A guff fae a tangle o seaweed
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
fae Gushetneuk went then took seaweed hame on return(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiny fan o seaweed, dark spaghetti on page 49

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
dishes and chamchars, fuul o seaweed and sand on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
the neighbours share out the seaweed?" on page 10

3 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
German - wis waar (fur kelp/seaweed).

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I've been tae collect seaweed torn ashore fae da weekend ga(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ea monsters draped in slairgy seaweed. Jenny teuk tae greetin an ah
y was first tae peel back his seaweed. ‘Ha ha! Gotcha!’ he saed
2 matches

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