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Use in varieties of Scots

cobwebs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.1 7.5 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences124 5 2 1 0 0
Number of authors11 3 5 2 1

Occurrences of cobwebs in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
erdog. Aw, ah git it noo, the cobwebs huv been removed, if yae pard on page 21

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
mage wid flash in her mind ae cobwebs and clasped hauns, but any ma
, whose claithes wur spun fae cobwebs. A weird whistle emanated fae
2 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Dysart wi the wind blawin the cobwebs awa. (2022) twitter link

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ld I dee? The winda wis foo o cobwebs an stoor so I couldna see tha on page 60

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Cobwebs - aul an some new - deid fl on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fresh air in te blaaw awa the cobwebs, bit ere's ayewis some'dy caa on page 45

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he cellar covered in dust and cobwebs. The Laird hid in his hand a
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
up the beach & shack aff the cobwebs fae last night. Dinna ken fit(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So they gather stoor and cobwebs in a cupboard oot the back. on page 44

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
an the cobwebs knit on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Sunday stroll to blow away da cobwebs and stretch oot da spaegie af(2018) search twitter