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Use in varieties of Scots

murderer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 5.7 7.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1811 5 1 1 0 0
Number of authors14 7 5 1 1

Occurrences of murderer in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
me tae death. They say yer a murderer Da, a really slow one. Killin on page 41

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
l. Grub fit enough fur a mass murderer oan death row. Oan a on page 115

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
wedded ti this murderer, this Darnley, on page 19
ma fiercest enemy! Rizzio's murderer on page 22
'm a Stewart, sure, but nae a murderer. on page 35

4 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
An apprentice murderer: you cuid kill, aa riche! on page 23

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns;
A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns;
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
rabber' is anither word for a murderer an in chapter 9, Dr Lanyon's
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
laddie cried “There’s the murderer!” an’ sterted tae run eft
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Like a murderer happit wi a cloot on page 15

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ti mak up mi myne if he wis a murderer or nae. on page 8

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he same sentence o a witch, a murderer, or a mutineer in the time o
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
it and said the ‘Double Tap Murderer’ hid moved ontae a new weap
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae fa, let alane fa wis the murderer!!(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a mass murderer.' on page 137

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Imagine referring tae bein a murderer as a 'flaw'. https://t.co/Ytp(2021) search twitter