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Use in varieties of Scots

embrace Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 4.6 4.5 9.9 5.8 41.3 4.4
Number of occurrences199 3 1 1 4 1
Number of authors17 9 3 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of embrace in Corpus

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Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Syne oor last embrace. on page 24

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Tae embrace yer ain road on page 21

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
frae his stubble embrace on page 96

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Strainin doon tae embrace stanes that hae tummelt tae e on page 13

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
In yird's embrace; on page 80

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
A embrace im intae ma boady.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ns oer, bowlin intae me in an embrace the kind ay which ah’ve sel
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Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Cos ye cannae just embrace the fact, we're all a human r
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eys oan here tae fill them - embrace the lockdown this month - co (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
l that made it clear he didna embrace that philosophy. He'd jist go on page 40

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Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
their lives, they maun fully embrace their femininity an domestic
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@beast_afc tweeted
st the tap deck boyz, we will embrace this. Next season, a will con(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
tae embrace the au naturelle scene on page 100

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
wir ain peerie isles; a green embrace on page 34

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A' Teri's will embrace on page 26
Her warm embrace we' el kent on page 49
A' Parishes embrace on page 54

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Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
ghost, feebly gies its first embrace on page 208

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
eratin hir pale feet, its icy embrace sneddin hir breith as she imm on page 50

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