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Use in varieties of Scots

reign Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5.3 1.6 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences1510 1 0 4 0 0
Number of authors12 10 1 1

Occurrences of reign in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'Kings dinna awn things, They reign ower them. It isna the same a on page 47

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Tyranny nae mair shall reign on page 8

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
t inklins o Jones's laithsome reign. The herness-room at the end on page 6

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
aw it a hunner per cent. Your reign ae terror ends theday. And mi on page 200

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
terin aw that grows unner its reign on page 13

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tae reign ees braid high street on page 33

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Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
e fair and weel? Fowk caw his reign a Gowden Age, dae they no? on page 11

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Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
cotland, frae Alexander III's reign tae 1603, maks a gurlie kilte on page 126

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ir ain imperial languages tae reign supreme ower
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@LairnScots tweeted
Read aboot the reign o Mary Queen o Scots, an asse (2020) twitter link

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
her cronies & I've got a free reign tae dee fit I want. 1st stop (2018) search twitter

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
May du aye reign among wis; may on page 93
it again afore da Göd Man's reign. An he lifted da cup an gied on page 143
be dir licht an wi him dey'll reign firivir. on page 173

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