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Use in varieties of Scots

metaphor Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.3 0 0 5.8 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 0 0 1 1 1
Number of authors11 8 1 1 1

Occurrences of metaphor in Corpus

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Central

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Metaphor? on page 98
as a metaphor for a poor man's strife. on page 104

2 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
wer again, sae it's a gey apt metaphor fir the quest fir Scottish id on page 84

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
k up tae the reservoir. Every metaphor and simile is perfect, and he on page 23

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
erence between a simile and a metaphor?" There was anither chap on t on page 37

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
The tree o the pit's as much metaphor on page 107

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
lin seems ti be a gey popular metaphor this time roun!). In 'Nae Gui on page 7

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ical forbye. The wecht o deid metaphor hings havy on Inglis style: a
canna mak a play on siccan a metaphor aless he or she can lippen ta
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e Bridge, A've read as bein a metaphor for the poet's residency an t
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
fur metaphor or mibbe metapheesiks. on page 35

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
tes throu its extendit fushin metaphor on the camsteerie metaphysics on page 5

1 matches

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
e poem Snaw-breaker is like a metaphor for the great patriotic Scot.(2020) search twitter