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Use in varieties of Scots

powers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 3 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1612 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors13 10 1 1 1

Occurrences of powers in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
force wae almost supernatural powers. It's obvious that last week on page 23
force wae almost supernatural powers. Me, Broonie n Addison sloped on page 36

2 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
and Powers eneuch ti see it, on page 129

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
t aw because yer mind and yer powers o reasonin seem full-grown. A on page 189
legal guardian. She'd aw the powers o a mither or faither ower me on page 191

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Fae thi demon drink an its powers on page 78

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“You never know what powers Welfare have these days,” B
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
yr bairns and thyr magics and powers wyr aulder thyn time, fyr the
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
erset intae English as ‘the powers that be’, which has thon ae
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
autonomy fiscal and borrowing powers. I see a paradigm (and in the(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ore the time tae use whatever powers we personally have tae get us (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ery day ah gie thanks tae the powers o' the universe that I am a S(2021) search twitter

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Whit supernatural powers were attributit tae Cyaard ar on page 118

2 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
conspiracy - bit the powers-that-be on page 25

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Yaes caen drink at yir Powers till yir heid feels lik' mush on page 29

1 matches

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