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Use in varieties of Scots

poppies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 1.6 8 0 5.8 21.9 0
Number of occurrences113 5 0 1 2 0
Number of authors8 3 2 1 2

Occurrences of poppies in Corpus

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Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whan poppies tume their petal tears on page 2

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
passin poppies oot like sacrament. on page 69

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s surroondit wi fields o reid poppies. The Wicked Witch o the East
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
seen perennial flooers sic as poppies an marguerite daisies scaiter
will be chuffed wi the extra poppies on offer tae them in particul
offer tae them in particular. Poppies are ane o bees’ favourites
ae be plantit, as weel as the poppies an dasies aaready thrivin. In
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
The wursitty #poppies aat Peterheid Baptist Church (2018) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
My poppies just popped oot this mornin. (2020) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
In the forenicht, he haes poppies.
1 matches

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
t in threi shops afore a fund poppies for sale.
1 matches

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