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Use in varieties of Scots

grips Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 3.7 9.6 9.9 11.6 0 8.8
Number of occurrences187 6 1 2 0 2
Number of authors15 6 4 1 2 2

Occurrences of grips in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
tigative journalist, come tae grips wi his ain childhood as weel on page 87

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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
hauns hovering ower ma pistol grips - chink-chink-chink o spurs.
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
is yer dream? - Tae get tae grips
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
e Board will need tae get tae grips wi richt oot the gate are exa
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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
she winna...” Suddent Davie grips her hauns in his. She wirks a
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McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
rnment guns. A never came tae grips wi’ ony Redcoat! We broke t
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Hallucination grips -
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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it. An syne a sidden sairness grips ma hairt es Ah leuk it a phot on page 89

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ike, eh, ma loon?" A sairness grips ma hairt an Ah swally the lum on page 22

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e at's feart te try an git te grips wi onythin new." on page 51

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
aa taen in yet. The haan that grips the sned, the airm that swing on page 19

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Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
s wan o thae queer silences grips the wids, ye ken like awthin
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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
n mi aboot a year tae get tae grips with Twitter like!(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hid tae yeuse a dose o Kirby grips tae keep hid in place. I coul on page 99

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Shetland

Mundair, Raman Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
steadies slips an grips da burra on page 10

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Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ly I doobled ower twafaald wi grips. Thankfully da pell wis handy
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Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An Abraham tha gully grips, on page 33

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Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
spanners, an pliers, an vice grips on page 8

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