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Use in varieties of Scots

skirls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 2.6 12.1 0 17.4 0 4.4
Number of occurrences175 8 0 3 0 1
Number of authors12 4 5 2 1

Occurrences of skirls in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Blaik Unendin Skirls on page 55
Skirls oot like a klaxon, dwynes doo on page 84

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
dently, the air wis filled wi skirls o excitement. The skraichs ca on page 76

1 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
a thing. Aw ah can hear is ma skirls and greets. An ah can feel th
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
‘Nou, my feres,’ skirls Snawba, thrawin doun the pent
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
a triangle the furst fiddler skirls "ve hae spatrils here that di on page 3

1 matches

Wheeler, Leslie Brockit, the Ferm Toon Cat, (Grampian Regional Council 2000) Doric, weans
fan he heard a gie lot a wee skirls an miaowins. Sure enuff, ther
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
, wad listen tae the maens an skirls that drooths an junkies are l
tae mak repon tae his wife's skirls fur help. Curfews war enforce
bour far a piper droont their skirls till the ship cud catch the t
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
escapin stame or tae hear the skirls o them trappit ablow as the f
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ssie likit tae bear the balms skirls o delicht!
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
? Thon @Angus_the_Bull1 nivir skirls aboot it at hame games!(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ing trowe da hill. We hear da skirls o dir bairns, dir gaffs an, o
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
och an you’ll mebbe hear da skirls an sneesters o wis on a hill
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tae replace him and my girly skirls'll be heard 9 mile awaa ??(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wi eldrich skirls an wails. on page 32

1 matches

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