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Use in varieties of Scots

shroud Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences117 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors10 6 3 1

Occurrences of shroud 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

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
But as nicht's dark shroud faa's faster, an the sweet no on page 20

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Stiff-happit in a shroud o frost on page 80

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
(Bothwell pu's back the shroud ti reveal Darnley's face.) on page 35

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
his shooder an chist, as the shroud ay flesh an skin that is his
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y veins oan display under the shroud ay tired auld flesh.
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
we’d been beat, the burial-shroud o haar that kivvert Edinburgh
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
hey dinnae sew pockets on yir shroud Moira ????(2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He pits on a clean shroud an sets aff for the pub on page 15

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the sleeves o yer fite satin shroud are baith yer birthday waatch on page 23

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tbye wis like linen, fite's a shroud. The wee mantle clock gaed ri
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Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
haes cuist a fauch lyke shroud.
1 matches

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