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Use in varieties of Scots

bruise Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.7 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1513 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of bruise in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
id steepin. That's the thing. Bruise easy yince ye've hud yer thre on page 1

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
love's hauns willnae gie ye a bruise. on page 7
flair and ye'll can start tae bruise. on page 34

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an a brand new bruise. on page 7

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
in his fingir ower the gowpin bruise on his face whaur Olaf had sk on page 58
bruise?" Violet said, but jist as sh on page 64
ere. But his face still had a bruise, so Klaus kept wheesht. on page 75

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae oxygen. The purpley yella bruise oan the inside ay her airm wh
1 matches

Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
Every bruise,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yin. It wad be weill worth a bruise tae cairry aff the taste o he
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
iscoloured skin appeared. Th' bruise sat directly oan mah ankle, r
ed tae race. Th' creakin. Th' bruise. Th' silence. Somethin is 'er
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
hing that they’re aboot tae bruise. Suddenly, we kin hear moveme
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e wis nae sign o a cut, nur a bruise tae be seen. Wi trimmlin haun
1 matches

Shetland

Mundair, Raman Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a bruise upwellin idda soothwast lift on page 11

1 matches

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