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Use in varieties of Scots

butcher's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 5.1 10.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1910 7 1 0 1 0
Number of authors12 7 3 1 1

Occurrences of butcher's in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ed tae make them wae the good butcher's steak links fae the shoap oan on page 8

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
In at the local butcher's shoap, on page 24

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
a dug wi a bane chored oot a butcher's shoap. on page 108

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The legs, hung out lik butcher's bluidy jynts, on page 128

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s said she wis as strong as a butcher's dog and proved it when she th on page 39
artment. Ma leg could go in a butcher's window. The doctor says the n on page 86

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a butcher's parcel o counties and regions on page 70

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Banes, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Ower a thousant butcher's banes on page 75

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
"a butcher's parcel o countries an regions
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
usePat there's a muckle great butcher's apron on the corner garden al(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
de, lik a raw o sassages in a butcher's windae. Bit at least the snaa on page 32

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said. "Wi'd the fisher an the butcher's on page 87

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a wealthy man...a man wi sax butcher's shops. Ye'll mebbe need te th on page 48
yon muckle, fat Mabel fae the butcher's keepit askin ma up. Ah canna on page 85

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
's MacTavish gaein in tae the butcher's!" an he pulls ower tae the ke on page 105
ae pit oot fan he cam oot the butcher's?" on page 110

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nything else hid survived the butcher's shop o slaachter. He thocht t
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sookan the butcher's peenie on page 8

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
- Ah've seen mair meat oan a butcher's pencil!(2020) search twitter