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Use in varieties of Scots

referrin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences128 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of referrin in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e Veroli seminar A stertit wi referrin tae, is this. Bi finnin the c on page 40

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
ctly whit the auld wumman wis referrin tae... the curse o Eve! She h on page 1

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ae their ain speech? Are they referrin tae linguistic features at aa on page 9

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
k a nod tae Robert Garioch bi referrin tae the Edinburgh Festival as
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Aye, well if yer referrin tae the day, as ah explained
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
n tae be effective' she said, referrin tae the norie o 'mainstreamin
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n tae an, frae then on, keeps referrin tae somebody cried Haining.
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@Chazzbat tweeted
on Netflix, an the polis keep referrin tae the transgender killer as(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ed wi X'. Jüst wha an dem is referrin tae depends apø da context, on page 50
spokken aboot, as in da book, referrin tae a on page 61

2 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
wi X". Jüst wha "an dem" is referrin tae depends apø da context,

@tattooedselkie tweeted
in da comment appeared tae be referrin tae himsel.(2021) search twitter

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