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Use in varieties of Scots

sleeps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.5 19.7 4.5 39.7 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences4739 3 4 1 0 0
Number of authors16 10 2 3 1

Occurrences of sleeps in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
An sleeps in soond o beautiful rain. on page 24

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
the lowe o a lamp, even as he sleeps.' on page 78

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
boot how much your generation sleeps!" Aonghas is fulla beans, he on page 3

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ts we howked. On oor luves an sleeps on page 41

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native earth, on page 17

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ives o toil slipt past atween sleeps in a mist on page 37
Uneasy sleeps the heid o he on page 125

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
A bairn sooks his thoomb, sleeps doucely, on page 19

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 73 - Guest, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Sunday nicht sleeps like a doo on page 61

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
but she sleeps on, sways with lax complexity on page 91

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native yirth,
1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
ar her it peace. Even fan she sleeps I still hear her mumbliin awa
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ter o a book! Nicht nicht and sleeps well! xxx(2014) search twitter
ning full o exercise! Orf tae sleeps now! @JeffBrazier http://t.co(2015) search twitter
....ahem morning! I'm orf tae sleeps tae before gettin up in 7hrs!(2015) search twitter
ehearsals are goin guid? Noow sleeps well. Nicht nicht! xxx ??????(2015) search twitter
ote tae self! When you go tae sleeps earlyish the nicht b4 and wak(2015) search twitter
and 21 other occurrences.

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sleeps in a wee but an ben on page 188
She sleeps alow on page 189

2 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Noo Jock aneth Craig Shannoch sleeps
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
p you tae sleep the deepest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer on page 23

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And a crisis o identity - he sleeps amang the kye. on page 50

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sleeps wae his glesses oan Under the on page 20

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lp you to sleep the deepest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer on page 77

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Only 360 ish more sleeps til da next Shetland Folk Fes(2014) search twitter