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saxty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11 10.6 16 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences3420 10 0 0 0 4
Number of authors18 13 3 2

Occurrences of saxty in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
izened auld buddie, upwards o saxty, wi sherp spitefu een, nippit on page 136

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
The wunter o saxty-fower wis hellish lang an bit on page 85

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ythes, pikes, an nae mait nor saxty muskets an twa score pistols on page 27
o command. John tallied about saxty mair wi swords or pistols, an on page 35
as he saw a band o men, aboot saxty strang - twinty on horseback on page 51

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
ns whan 'Ye turn yir back for saxty 'ear'. Atweill, it's a daunne on page 5

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Thirty, saxty, nummerless as the stars like on page 136

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
cried Gillies Lowp, which is saxty-somethin trees in a ring, and on page 162
been able tae coont if it wis saxty-three or - saxty-fower, no ev on page 163
oh, wi his back tae yin o the saxty-somethin trees, and his loofs on page 164

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Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
But three hunner and saxty-five days were follaed bi yit on page 25

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
mrc-scotland.org.uk), wi some saxty teams, is aye thare tae lift on page 65

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ena Blackhall is the owther o saxty an mair chapbeuks, an the'r n on page 120

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Peffers, Bob Whit Aboot Ma Ceevil Richts?, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, poetry
Ah'm mair thin saxty year auld nou.
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t tae a lattitude heicher nor saxty degree north sae some fowk mi
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Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
een the ages o aboot forty an saxty, an skilled warkers intae the
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
hegither, there were less nor saxty fowk wirkin at the decommissi
e Rational Warld an the lave. Saxty year later, Stephen’s paren
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
election in Scotland fir near saxty year. Syne thon day it wad se
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'Saxty poun? Saxty poun! Ah ken Ah'm feel, but A on page 45
had a drink in. Ah widna pey saxty poun for that. Fact, Ah widna on page 46

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
in the same region but aboot saxty mile awa. The Duoro river, fi on page 9

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
s. Did ye ken Aalmeldrum lost saxty-three? New Deer, fifty? New P on page 18

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McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Three hunner saxty-five," said Ailice. on page 81
preives at there three hunner saxty-fower days fan ye mith get on on page 82

4 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
scheme 42% ir twa hunner an' saxty on page 36
Airts Cooncil tae heft aboot saxty musicians. on page 42
preCovid tourism hefted aboot saxty five thoosan joabs in Norlin on page 65

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Drennan, William Yin Tae A Hunner, (Ullans Press 2004) Ulster, poetry
But at saxty, seiventy an echty
1 matches

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