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Use in varieties of Scots

rift Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.6 4.5 19.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences125 3 2 0 0 2
Number of authors10 4 2 2 2

Occurrences of rift 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

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
tryin tae heal fae some deep rift? on page 18

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
he laddie let oot an almichty rift that sweeled roond the hall l on page 122

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
raucle great rift. Awbody fell aboot, and there on page 78

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
eh'se waarint hits rift on page 66

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he spairkly juice aat made ye rift. on page 64
Alec grinned afore addin, "A rift an a rip an ye'll bi hungry a on page 71

2 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
up tae the megaphone and try rift the loudest. Somehoo, each pa
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An then gae a rift on page 88

1 matches

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
The monster girned and gied a rift, and threw up ass and guffan
1 matches

Ulster

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Gien a rift an a boke
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
p, my Da wull aye gie a quare rift, an say: "I'm fou as a fitchi (2015) twitter link

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