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Use in varieties of Scots

buttercups Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.3 0 3.2 29.8 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences70 2 3 1 1 0
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of buttercups in Corpus

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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in the heat haze, buzzin ower buttercups and bluebells afore disappear on page 44

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the lea rigs wad be fillin wi buttercups an sweet pink clover; the dyk
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
orizon. The fields were fillo buttercups and I felt so alive. The sun on page 22

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
There's fields o yellow buttercups, aal shinan in the sun on page 48

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
rizon. The fields were fill o buttercups an I felt so alive. The sun w on page 76

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
troot lay sprikklin among da buttercups. on page 9

1 matches

Southern

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
yellow-rattle an buttercups; on page 155

1 matches

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