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Use in varieties of Scots

minister's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 3.6 12.1 39.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences197 8 4 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of minister's in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
It wis hardly Prime Minister's Question Time, likes, But Ald on page 131

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
greetinfaced whinin at First Minister's Quaistions! As A seyed, Am no on page 104

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
f an cover them wi icing? The minister's wife near choked tae daith. on page 62
herty kept winkin at him? The minister's wile noticed onywye. on page 63
MOIRA: Dinnae be daft! The minister's ower busy tae bury a gerbil. on page 64

3 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ite she meant, we played "The Minister's Cat". When we got tae H ane o on page 120

2 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
hunnerpelt, takkin tent o the minister's langer-nor-eeswal langamachie on page 24
itor, they cud lippen tae the minister's wife tae tak a turn, though a on page 25
r vyce haudin the teen wi the minister's wife. "Megstie me," thinks Fe on page 26
ventreeloquists dae?" But the minister's draacht was as lang an the li on page 27

8 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
p wi his swear wirds when the minister's aroond. on page 55
Mind us catchan the minister's wife makkan watter, ahint the on page 63

4 matches

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