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Use in varieties of Scots

reaches Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 7.7 3 0 0 20.7 8.9
Number of occurrences2115 2 0 0 2 2
Number of authors17 11 2 2 2

Occurrences of reaches 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Oh, lighten up.' She reaches fur her phone but ah put mah on page 3

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a trainer kin be deadly. Taz reaches us n the crowd behind him on page 17

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
lit windae ahint him then he reaches intae his jaiket an pulls oot on page 1

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
The driver reaches an arm tae the meter. His for on page 1

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Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
uisticallie-pleyfu poetry, an reaches us appropriatelie via Rab Cal on page 5

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Bertie unclasps ma hauns and reaches intae hur blouse. Hur haun em on page 48

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Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
At ane mair, the haip reaches the door richt hyne awa, rich on page 9

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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
uck ah’m dain oan the lower reaches ay a mountain at hauf six in
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
in the sangs o Iain Johnstone reaches a Gilbert an Sullivan staunda
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Sleep wul take im afore hae reaches the temporary restin place th
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Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
He stanks his drink an reaches forward, grabbin the boatle a
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
bet wis tae mak for the lawer reaches whaur they cud see the lichts
ae submission weill afore she reaches puberty. She’s kep indoors,
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ellin me overwhelmin me an he reaches oot, strokin ma face; a juxta
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Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
r look jist as the big fucker reaches his haun richt doon tae grab
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Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
But Calder reaches oot his haan and halts the lo
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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
a ferrawa steid on the upper reaches o the Yangtze. He wes a gret
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Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
It reaches oot frae this tae whar on page 45

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
5. Oor identity reaches ayont Norlin Airlan an' hit's on page 5

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