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Use in varieties of Scots

graceful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 2 4.4 0 5.8 0 9.7
Number of occurrences104 3 0 1 0 2
Number of authors9 4 2 1 2

Occurrences of graceful in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ae git it curvin doon intae a graceful kind ae zigzag, an wis aw abo on page 52

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
autumn tree hersel, douce and graceful. My Lady speaks to my mither, on page 3

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Frae afar he resembles the graceful sails o a colourful barque on page 43

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
id, 'Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without Metho on page 101

1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ed in curvan id doon intill a graceful Zigzag, an wis goan till dive on page 50

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
se o yer winnerfu een and yer graceful dauncin," reponed the Sea Car on page 121

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
id garrotted her…unlike the graceful body, the face wis hauf-etten
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
n handles. Embla made o' elm, graceful yet strong enough fir buildin(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
inisht curvin it doon intae a graceful zigzag, an wus gan tae dive i on page 52

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
n ma right wi strang airms an graceful legs.
1 matches

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