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Use in varieties of Scots

pretended Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 2.5 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences95 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of pretended in Corpus

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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 13

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

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

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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