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Use in varieties of Scots

swallows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 2.1 1.6 19.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences94 1 2 2 0 0
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of swallows in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
e rowans, whar the flichterin swallows skim. on page 18

1 matches

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Dark swallows on page 68

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hey they're hoapin the winner swallows their tongue durin the accept on page 117

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
O swallows and Tod Lapraik and herds as on page 123

1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
quine an starts vacuuming an swallows it up - ah’m clyping tae Do(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The first shout o 'the swallows are back...open the garage do on page 65

2 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Swallows, tirricks, dunter ducklings, (2013) search twitter
@mostlyotters Dir wis swallows aroond Ronald's byre da idder(2020) search twitter