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Use in varieties of Scots

oath Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1310 1 1 0 0 1
Number of authors11 8 1 1 1

Occurrences of oath 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

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
But nae word or oath could express the state he wi on page 139

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
, for failin tae tak the Test oath acknowledgin the king as heid on page 39
e . . . will ye nou swear the Oath o Allegiance tae His Majestie on page 45

2 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
h!' sneists the man, 'Gie the oath!' on page 46

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
r nurture, a birth cry and an oath on page 75

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
of that town, did depone opon oath that they saw it.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
as they registered an taen an oath o allegiance tae him. Only th

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
refused to tak the Abjuration oath … tae swear allegiance to t

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
perate. And kennin the sacred oath these receptionists took tae
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
are o MPs that hae taen their oath in Scots. An Scots MP's yaise (2020) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
A SECRET OATH
1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An muttered a low an solemn oath on page 84

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
lang syne, 'Dïnnae brek yer oath, but keep tha oaths ye hae ma on page 5

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