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Use in varieties of Scots

sphere Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 5.7 4.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1611 3 1 0 0 1
Number of authors11 7 2 1 1

Occurrences of sphere in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Black Band they shiftit their sphere o operations fer the next wee on page 106

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
o Sheena's poem Mr. Tomato's Sphere maks claer at aa is no weill on page 120

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
syne, sheavin aff pairt o the sphere an flingin materials awgaits
syne, sheavin aff pairt o the sphere an flingin materials awgaits.
p o cloods wheechin aboot its sphere while aneath is a lang, thick
er, is its sma, pairtly rocky sphere sizes wi oor Yird. Tho it isn
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
art bi the courts i the legal sphere, at cheynge taks place. An th
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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e o left opinion can create a sphere o political debate, openin sp
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the weaker kintras in its ain sphere o influence, while miscawin R
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
with’ bides strangly in the sphere o Scottish Staunart English (
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
s and plurals, as in spheris (sphere’s); vertewis (virtues); day
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Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
bronze globe statue caad the 'Sphere Within Sphere'. It was giftit on page 7

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@72redz1903 tweeted
oblem and it’s in the public sphere that politics operates. (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ts o the yallo yotun's flowan sphere, an whar thay'll hopp tae fin on page 105

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Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
icant an' mich velued culture sphere on page 29

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