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Use in varieties of Scots

narrow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 3.7 6.4 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences157 4 0 4 0 0
Number of authors12 6 3 3

Occurrences of narrow in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae her as she goes doon the narrow flight ae stairs. "And dinnae on page 141

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Great Granda's poem. Hur eyes narrow as she haulds the auld piece on page 53

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
legs. They heaved her ontae a narrow bench. The crab had pushed aa on page 36

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ma eyes drift tae Maw. Ah narrow them. Even fae a distance, ah on page 12

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
tandards, at least alang this narrow bit main street. Willie seems on page 72

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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ntit each other. The path wis narrow. Aat wiz the thing. They spik
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
mare slow walkers on the wee narrow back streets and lanes throug
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"At wis a narrow escape!" sade Alice, a good d on page 19
a good deal: iss fireplace is narrow, till be sure; but A think A on page 36

2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
@Dominiquetaegon Ridiculously narrow and clumsy definition tae sta (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
will pit ye on the straight n narrow laddie!(2019) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Your wife had a narrow escape," he said, "she's stil on page 53

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Sutherland, Stella Midder, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
trow narrow grinnd o bane set free
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
nerally been rejected outside narrow activist circles as education
policy in Friesland wid be ‘narrow activism’ in Scotland.
2 matches

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