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Use in varieties of Scots

handkerchief Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 0 9.9 0 0 14.5
Number of occurrences51 0 1 0 0 3
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of handkerchief in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
travelling. He held a silken handkerchief tae his face as though feart on page 3

1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
McGonagall pulled oot a lace handkerchief an dabbed her eyes beneath he
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ers heaved. Maisie remutved a handkerchief frae hir sleeve an passed it on page 5

3 matches

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