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Use in varieties of Scots

wraiths Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences75 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of wraiths in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
week by storms an muckle snaw-wraiths, Isabel endured three lang mo on page 43
bitter storms that sent snaw-wraiths sclimmin the hicht o the thei on page 56

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
They think oor hame grown wraiths are like tae livin fowk on page 21
Wraiths in ragged legions oot the cor on page 23
Teemin wi wraiths, paper pokes, and packets o t on page 29

3 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ounded like wreaths of sna or wraiths of sna? Can anyone help pleas(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An grim ghaists, an coorse wraiths, aye houl sway. on page 9

1 matches

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