dire | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 2.8 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 8 | 5 | 3 |
Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
han the cuddies o destruction dire. on page 81
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
’ Tennis, amid threats o’ dire retribution, in Callum’s di
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
calmness and strength in such dire conditions wis truly a sight
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
d a got in free - its feckin dire (2020) twitter link
the hertz the noo - tbh its dire - ad rether watch sandys lol (2021) twitter link
Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e strae wi a loon cud hiv sic dire consequences. on page 65
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@cligeey tweeted
ms Switched aff at 10 minutes dire stuff(2020) search twitter