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Use in varieties of Scots

canon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.7 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1311 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of canon in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
Passin up the Canon' Loan on page 141

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
oject anent the quaistion o a canon o oral leeterature (a ken its on page 75
clIlvanney, Neil Ascherson an Canon Kenyon Wright gied thir suppo on page 107

4 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
(an awfy wee coarner) in the canon. Houever, romance an moralisi on page 90

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a tract o its times, biggin a canon o ideas as weill's comin owre on page 95

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
acceptit as pairt o the Burns canon, but it misses this ane, eien on page 4

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
e hisnae been includit in the canon, this in spite o the muckle r
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
eys, then buggered off. Their canon fired constantly. Fortunately
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
ldnae believe it. A camera! A Canon an aw, a pure minter! Ah goes
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ar (but yet bonnie an uissfu) canon o Scots steid o the sneck ver
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
nglis. We need wir ain ongaun canon o new work scrievit first in (2020) search twitter