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Use in varieties of Scots

elephants Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 4.3 1.6 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences128 1 0 3 0 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of elephants in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
A kent elephants jist see black an white, on page 3

1 matches

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
er o them in Botswana: lions, elephants, leopards, ostriches, puggies on page 4

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
The eighth has giraffes, elephants an bears; on page 30

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
Yon eemage o the elephants gart the wee prince lauch. on page 22

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
snorkin squeal, like frichtit elephants mak, is the lang wumman gresp on page 67

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
that wis biggit tae keep oot elephants.”
rks,” Bill sayed, “no the elephants. Onywey, thoo wis tellin wis,
2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
is gets trampled tae deith by elephants! ?? https://t.co/W6wI1e7z03(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
snake infestit roads far even elephants laired in the glaury dubs.
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
da horizon. Dir a herd a ele-elephants da horizon. It's anidder sign on page 52
da dug's collar, dey aa hedd elephants on dem!" on page 53

3 matches

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