shakes | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 6.9 | 9.8 | 1.5 | 9.9 | 0 | 0 | 4.4 | |
Number of occurrences | 22 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Number of authors | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
neck ae a drawstring bag. She shakes the bubbles aff on page 1
1 matches
Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ss fae me, Siobhan smiles and shakes her heid. When Siobhan smiles on page 1
1 matches
Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Shakes the loose rocks with steep de on page 3
1 matches
Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Craig stands up and shakes ma hand. "It's gid on page 73
Aldo shakes his heid. "Then there's last on page 136
He shakes his heid. on page 170
3 matches
Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
He shakes his heid. 'Mair like a glorif on page 5
Mammy shakes hur heid as she speaks. This on page 28
2 matches
Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he loose skin around hur face shakes. Maw wis never a big wumman, on page 8
light o a streetlamp, and she shakes hur head. on page 33
o tea when she sits, but she shakes hur head and pats the empty c on page 45
Cathy shakes hur heid. 'Hur tongue is gaun on page 78
4 matches
Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An shakes ma wab wi blawin? Does he pla on page 44
1 matches
Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
An shakes ma wab wi blawin? Does he pla on page 59
1 matches
Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hem blastin their horns - an shakes his heid. ‘Right, ah’ll g
1 matches
Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Screwin his eyes at me, he shakes his heid, clearly unimpressed
1 matches
Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ftie than ye look.’ Pearcey shakes his heid in grim acceptance a
1 matches
@raiphsays tweeted
w dae folk no lift er stuff! *shakes heid*(2020) search twitter