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laws Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20.4 29.8 3.2 0 0 32.8 8.8
Number of occurrences6356 2 0 0 3 2
Number of authors33 27 2 2 2

Occurrences of laws in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
es, wir honesty, wir leids an laws - sae hoo'd we come tae voti on page 77

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ence tae iniquitous religious laws imposed on Scotland by Chairl on page 31
rict adherence tag the king's laws. on page 34
ther flaunt or transgress the laws o the King's Privy Council.' on page 41
gavel waa. For under the new laws, tae be fand readin the Guid on page 58

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed their taxes and obeyed the laws. Rules which wur designed tae on page 90

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
as that's aw it took fer the laws tae hae 'legal staunin' here on page 18

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
conseidert. What-wey daes oor laws proteck an sairve naitur? An on page 5

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Anti-Social Behaviour Laws'?!? Juist bring thaim oan! on page 30
an biggit touns, an passed laws that made it a crime on page 120

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
s maw, the ancient body o the laws decreed on page 19
Suspendit like aw natural laws, on page 92

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
tae hurt the feelins o his in-laws, but the sleekit tabloids, le on page 79

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
wis mairkin his place. "'The laws o mair riage in this communit on page 97
"The mairrage laws aroond here are gey simple," on page 146
whit's needit by the nuptial laws. The law says, plain as parri on page 152

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Hardie, George Lallans 58 - twa poems bi George Hardie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Hamilton, poetry
obey the ancient laws on page 41

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Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Frae hyne, no anelie war the laws enackit at Wastmeinster, but on page 22

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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ents in connection wi plannin laws, but the norie is a wee bitti
argied in favour o developin laws an poleitical institutions th
is whaur it is argied at oor laws ir sortit aroun the praiferen
ed’ veision o life an makin laws at ir adaptit til thon wey o
ss an plants for a lang time. Laws haes been enackit i that airt
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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e seasons broke auld Nature's laws,
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Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
got naething. Nae signs. Nae laws. No even a leaflet at the ent
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Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
warnae aboot wir politics an laws, but aboot hoo we cairry wirs
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
nipped roond tae ma sister in laws the other night and she’s t
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Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
oor ain pairlament and write laws for us as it pleases. Fowk wi
dna daur breinge in and write laws anent ony hame-rule maiters,
2 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
rapolatin oot fae that aa the laws o motion on earth. Up here in
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
ae Snobworts, brekkin the tax laws tae mak a midden o siller oot
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
O aw the laws tae come oot o oor Scots Pair
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Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ribes against his feckless in-laws. Sure enough, that is exactly
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Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
anti terrorist laws
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
wi laws,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tarian, and when the land use laws came in and she had to dig up
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
the fowk micht better ken the laws.
lament in Lunnon tae bring in laws that wad dearly stent inbroch
he first o the sae-cryed corn laws wis pit throu in 1804 an gart
pen on breid maist o aw, thir laws hut them sairly. Thay noo hae
a sair fecht tae get the corn laws elided an it wisna til 1846 t
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McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e secure pooer. Meanwhile new laws tae mak it hairder tae haud l
aboot the aplicability o the laws. Pairties i the Zkots Pairlia
r tae staun agin baith o thir laws, an this resistance micht pru
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McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
nae popular mandate tae pass laws that effecks us aw. It is a s
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
re incredible highs an muckle laws i Scotland, an Glesca seemed
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
ae the Cornish wi regaird tae laws that wis meant tae conter an
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
pers relatin tae the King’s laws. Back they went tae the Merca

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ment works, but attacking our laws and systems that are protecte(2020) search twitter

@weenell3 tweeted
@DavyGavin1 Laws and protection oot the windae (2022) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
an lairn aa aboot the EU, its laws an foo the parliament warks, on page 13

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Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
thole wi gun lobbies, an gun laws, as wir mebbe okay fir Dodge
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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
that sojer bund bi dour human laws, ti forleit wife an bairns, t
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Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
he care gin new laws ir posted
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@cammyrudkin tweeted
@GaryHughesie85 if e ken the laws hughesie boy when time is up (2012) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whiles, blame is pit on civil laws, on page 55

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Oor Faith, oor God oor laws, on page 33

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