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Use in varieties of Scots

sill Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 3.7 8 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences147 5 0 0 0 2
Number of authors11 6 3 2

Occurrences of sill 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

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Sill thi smoulder, as time gits on page 98

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
k in the stane, or the windae-sill, or mebbe a bit o furniture b on page 122
en scribbled alang the windae-sill, and wan muckle ee pentit on on page 125

2 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
a cat cam on oor sill on page 37

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Backin oot tae the sill; on page 58

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™m hingin oan tae the windae sill, ma fingernails diggin intae
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he waa endit in an owerhingin sill an gied ontae the lift. A gib
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
uff oot the windae Ess on the sill Mither's nae daft . Smoking c on page 15

3 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Like a beatsie on a windae sill on page 159

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
r a while remember the window sill carving though(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
the detergent frae the windae sill. on page 1

1 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
ae want naebody sittin on the sill. on page 17

1 matches

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