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Use in varieties of Scots

behold Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 3.5 4.4 9.9 17.4 10.3 0
Number of occurrences157 3 1 3 1 0
Number of authors12 6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of behold 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

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
...behold suddenly by the clouds clove
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
se aff et the dug, and lo and behold, the bugger only goes an sits
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
up tae oor stance, and lo and behold, it has SARAJEVO on the front
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
l she had the wean and lo and behold Jack Riley wis jist a figment
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
An then lo an behold, afore the turn of the millen
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
tae the watchers an said, “Behold aw ye, here is the heid o a f

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ditions wis truly a sight tae behold.
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
e compressed paraffin, an woo behold their weis licht, an fearsome on page 4

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
biler suit pooches an, lo an behold oot came
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
roon Cormack Park, but lo and behold, Hibs sneak in offer him a be (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ie story aboot it and, lo and behold, I won. To date they've not t on page 14

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
A joy ta behold on page 66
affa Mousa, a catch a joy ta behold. on page 67

3 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Lo and behold, throughoot the years on page 42

1 matches

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