couldny | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 4.2 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 6 | 6 |
Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
e Scots words (e.g. bi wirtin couldny raither nor a tradeetional Sc on page 40
2 matches
McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
after aw, ma teachers knew ah couldny get far in life cos eh ma tes
An a couldny keep anything in ma heed, ma
at ma gleamin fitbaw boots ah couldny believe it, ma knees were sha
3 matches
Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
words tae explain it, but ah couldny. Ah looked at ma fingers whic
Ah couldny wait tae show them tae me da,
ong ago it wis that tight she couldny get it aff.
Ah wis sure. Ah couldny bear the fact we’d never sa
4 matches
@FaetheRye tweeted
@Rab_Dickson1 @meljomur Couldny haud a caunle tae David Atten (2021) twitter link
@MartinBroon tweeted
Although A overstayed a day,A couldny get Myself vertical oan time (2019) search twitter
ndbov Aye! Danny whitshisname couldny manage anything tae save hims(2019) search twitter