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Use in varieties of Scots

swam Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.9 10.3 16.6 19.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences3520 11 2 2 0 0
Number of authors19 13 3 1 2

Occurrences of swam in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e pool a wee bit away, an she swam nearer tae make oot whit it w on page 21
oan, hauf tae hersel, as she swam lazily aboot in the pool, "an on page 22
heard this, it turnt roon an swam slowly back tae her: its face on page 23
the wey, an the whole pairty swam tae the shore. on page 24

4 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
He loupit in an' swam aboot on page 22

1 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
muckle!" said Alison, as she swam aboot, tryin tae fin her wey on page 20
heard this, it turnt roun an swam slowly back tae her: its face on page 23

4 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
telt me that the fishes that swam in the pond were the same typ on page 36

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an thi salmon still swam up on page 120

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
vers in the baths the day. Ah swam half a breadth an then ah sto on page 13

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
nch in the kist, I dooked and swam tae the bank.' on page 94

1 matches

Thom, Williamina Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
the wains that jumped, dived, swam ablow the brig, an rowed East
1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
vers in the baths the day. Ah swam half a breadth an then ah sto
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ither tae mak a rope. Ae Sikh swam the river an tied ae end o th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the lochan, McDade dived in, swam beneath an pulled me back up
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
cinths, an the taste o olives swam in her mooth; as her een fell
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
wha ran, jumped, foucht an’ swam their he’rts oot bit had na
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
rsed lips. Wan ae the figures swam towards her, lang tendrils tr
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
so much!" sade Alice, as she swam aboot, tryan till find her wa on page 20
on, half till hersel, as she swam lazily aboot in e pool, "an s on page 21
heard is, id turned roond an swam slow back till her: ids face on page 22

5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
A wee sea quine swam nearhaun. She'd a siller tail on page 114
w a glisk o fite faem far she swam. He didnae see her. on page 115
luve. It jist taks ower. She swam doon inno the sea and saved h on page 116
r her and sae, fou o wae, she swam doon tae the den o the coorse on page 118

4 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ver kent onything else. Faces swam in front o him but nae the ee
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
catch the speckled troot that swam in the derk loch, until ae da
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
met Tam an Lee on the wey. We swam in the sea and capered aboot on page 22

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
met Tam an Lee on the wey. We swam in the sea an capered aboot a on page 76

1 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
e, tae try reach it. His mind swam deeper and deeper trow da mur
1 matches

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d it was released after dark. Swam oot to sea.(2019) search twitter

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