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Use in varieties of Scots

pretended Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences117 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of pretended 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

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
walked by him and pretended ah didnae see him. He wis aw on page 1

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh've nivir pretended ti be on page 39

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
efter ah flew the nest. So ah pretended ah'd hud a great childhood, r on page 43

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
richt doon tae the buff, and pretended tae dress him in the claes th on page 64

1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
er efter that, but ah could o pretended it wis mair tae put a smile o
1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
okit awa’ richt quick an’ pretended ah’d niver even noticed hum
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
getting riled. Then the nyaff pretended not to even be himself – to
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
cht, an rushed at e stick, an pretended till worry id: then Alice dod on page 39

1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
mad. Eftir aal, they usually pretended sheu didna hiv a sister.
1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ht, an rushed at th stick, an pretended tae worry eet: then Ahlice du on page 40
"Hei must hae pretended tae b' somebody else," said t on page 118

2 matches

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