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Use in varieties of Scots

seeds Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15.5 19.1 11.2 0 11.6 10.9 8.8
Number of occurrences4836 7 0 2 1 2
Number of authors28 19 4 2 1 2

Occurrences of seeds in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
plants. Syne, there were guid seeds frae guid plants, an ill seed on page 22

5 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Sae yin by yin the seeds were sawn, on page 6

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wi emptiness, wee seeds o tenant on page 38

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
frae spores Sterts anew, frae seeds: on page 25

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
ld oan the pool. The thrissel-seeds. on page 16

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And deid seeds stert tae resurrect a bit on page 57
Sperm, seeds like burnin twists on page 118
Seeds and slurry, germinatin wi gus on page 132

4 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Spied out disorder's seeds ere they war sawn, on page 8

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
le menopausal Growin auld nae seeds tae scatter? Never! on page 4

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 73 - The Unco Spate, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Dundee, poetry
shiftin seeds lang sleepin on page 11

1 matches

McCallum, Andrew Lallans 73 - Ecce Homo, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
sawin seeds o e's speerit tae mak the dei on page 71

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
bairn bi his mither, sae the seeds o a conflick atween thaim, or on page 139

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ons such as buckie lice, (the seeds o the wild rose); loozie arnu
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
plauntit athort the warld fae seeds that’s been tae the muin. D
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
the weeds an A'll pit in the seeds,
forgettin their nutritious seeds,
an nuts an seeds that A pit oot
an them A grew fae 'Meadow Seeds'
she sprinkles aw the seeds,
6 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
rial brutality that sowed the seeds o much o the divisions that p
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
the thistle itself, its wild seeds hae blawn in the wind an taen
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he saw that it wis a packet o seeds. Some had spillt, bit there w
re wis the fauldit envelope o seeds that he had brocht fae
. He micht as weill plant the seeds somewhaur an see whit cam up.
“Ah hae this wee packet o seeds,” he telt him - her.
pu’ed oot the wee packet o seeds an haundit it tae Nusiret.
6 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
An seeds ye’ve sown,
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
e wha didnae ken whit kalonji seeds wur. Ah believe they wur bait(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
shooders an hop doon for the seeds in his haund. Ah saw it wi ma on page 118

1 matches

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
is mak a bird-feeder wi some seeds in it the newest addition tae
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
r kilts file they sowed their seeds on their land and cast nets o
1 matches

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
Guisers an a pucklie pumpkin seeds?
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
s seein as they baith produce seeds fit can be spreid naturally b
it is reassurin tae see mair seeds bein plantit. Although, it wa
e fine for some rarer kynes o seeds tae be plantit, as weel as th
3 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
spat seeds and bloody watter, saw on page 18

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
an da seeds tak hadd an da breer begins t on page 35

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
they thraw the seeds of dockens in ma corn. on page 129

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
O skailt seeds an tap breeds. on page 15

1 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
tha thoarns tuk ower, an tha seeds deed. An ither seed faad on g on page 82

1 matches

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