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Use in varieties of Scots

snipe Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 0 29.8 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences105 0 3 1 0 1
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of snipe in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Furget it', ah snipe, "You're tellin me it's fair on page 126

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
slaw mairch through mossland. Snipe, on page 112

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
, The heather bleet, the mire snipe, How many birds be that?’ T
bleet is anither name for the snipe. In spite o the fact that Bur
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
fishin as ma erse kens aboot snipe shootin!"
1 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A brace o snipe he's shot oot on the loons, on page 40
There isna muckle aeteen on a snipe! on page 42

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
rtain birds more apparent – snipe, in particular, struggle wae
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
pin wi da hound. Serenaded by snipe and whaups. https://t.co/xE0p(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
otball as my erse knows aboot snipe shootin. on page 33

1 matches

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