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Use in varieties of Scots

shutters Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 2.1 8 29.8 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences134 5 3 0 1 0
Number of authors8 4 1 2 1

Occurrences of shutters in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nted brown windaes and wooden shutters. By the time we arrive, Maw's on page 3

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
rumblin away, scraik of metal shutters hauled up fae a bar or a shop
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ezin in the grate. The windae shutters an aa the curtains drawn theg
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
nicht, wi the win rattlin the shutters an a flichter o snawflakes in
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
First she shut an bolted the shutters on the windaes. They were gey
en her neebour started on the shutters tryin tae pull them aff. The
d tae claw her wye throwe the shutters.
ebour clawin at the doors and shutters hid geen awa, tae be replaced
cked the doors and opened the shutters. Lizzie felt seeck tae her gu
5 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
aaldan Light, Astrid haes the shutters doon an cruisies slockit. Anu on page 161

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae the drum-roll o rattlan shutters; on page 4

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wetten ahint the shutters; his duggidniss, on page 22

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ah steik the shutters afore Ah shut ma een.
1 matches

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