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Use in varieties of Scots

swuird Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.7 0 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences1411 0 0 0 3 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of swuird 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

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
- his shield like a waw, his swuird like a snake that struck wi d on page 59

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
e shidders, an staunds wi his swuird, an threitens, on page 37
THE SWUIRD on page 41

3 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
ilkane wi his swuird at his side on page 6

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Nor swuird nae licht on page 31

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
lie he sattilt cangils wi hiz swuird, sae whan the Brithers sterti on page 46

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a swacks a mukkil twa-haundit swuird that he wun frae the ferr-ken
is delichtit an passes on his swuird til the son. He is sae gleg t
enue. But his son faws an the swuird is tint. Jock heizes himsel u
3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
rtassie ti weimenfowk bot hiz swuird ti inimies. This is aw fantis
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
een, “Wull A hev tae tak ma swuird wi mei?” Frae at repone ane
ie thit he maun hae keepit ae swuird handie.
borraed ae swuird frae the than Laird Polworth
3 matches

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