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Use in varieties of Scots

beads Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 10.1 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2320 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors14 11 2 1

Occurrences of beads in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
oorish skirts and cheap hussy beads and durty floozy face-paint. on page 76

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
and grabbed ma wooden rosary beads, hauldin oantae them fur dear on page 7

2 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the rif-raff tellin at their beads on page 54

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
oom and grab ma wooden rosary beads, hauldin oantae them fur dear on page 30

2 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
s wi lace collars, a string o beads an aye a bonny brooch. She wo on page 120

1 matches

Landles, William Lallans 73 - Welcome, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Played glint on the beads o rime. on page 57

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s in the mornin light wae wee beads ay moisture hingin oan like b
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
aves a perfect wab, hingit wi beads o dew or frost an sperklin in
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah lifted them fae the flair. Beads. Big broon beads strung on a
. Big broon beads strung on a thick rope. Like
he shelf as he spoke. 'Prayer beads, hen.'
cross-legged wi their prayer beads clickin away like knittin nee
blessing.' He took his prayer beads and waved them above the wean
7 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
man managed tae lea a trail o beads - he frownt accusinly at Bea
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
oloured lichts strung oot lik beads
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
d about, fingering her rosary beads, either behind us, or oot in (2022) twitter link

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
ans liefer it tae thair wirry beads Ye inspire sic ingine on page 3

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
up, an her een war twa bricht beads. Victor Vratch luikit doori a
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
inta strings o jet black beads. Some things on page 19

1 matches

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