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Use in varieties of Scots

powerfu Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 7.4 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1514 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of powerfu in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Is it no true that you are aa-powerfu, aa-kennin an aa-mercifu?' on page 49
argument but ... he's ... aa-powerfu ... so how could that be? Unl on page 50

3 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"See me, I'm maist powerfu' of a' on page 28

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
at tae get the better o an aw-powerfu adult. Even so, she wis dead on page 23
get it aff. Superglue is gey powerfu, that strang it will harl the on page 24
ther said. 'Peroxide is a gey powerfu chemical. It's whit they pit on page 58
e owerganged by somebody that powerfu. Ye turn tae jeely. So that's on page 194
folk roond here. She's a gey powerfu wumman.' on page 199

5 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
"Powerfu," the Saints judged. "A bit a on page 112

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Cameron wis a powerfu preacher, very direct but per

@LairnScots tweeted
Whit a powerfu wey tae bring history tae lif (2021) twitter link
fe fir wee yins) - but a gey powerfu poem fae @Lenniesaurus. https (2021) twitter link
Powerfu video. Piece means 'sandwich' (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"Powerfu true," said the Duchess: "fla on page 90

1 matches

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