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Use in varieties of Scots

callum Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words26.5 13.4 88.9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences8526 59 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 5 4

Occurrences of callum in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Ah'm, Callum" ah tell him. Before takin an on page 49
laughter. "Oh, Callum," he tells me, "you're a funn on page 50
"We'd now like to ask Callum to step up," he sais. This is on page 53
eresting piece you just read, Callum. Tell us what inspired such a on page 57
s voice sais: "That's classic Callum." Said voice is Henry who ah on page 58

6 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Mair recent like A'v enjoyed Callum and The Mountain bi Alan MacC on page 57

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Callum MacDonald Memorial Award 2003
THE Callum MacDonald Memorial Award wis
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Callum
Big Callum wis, fair tae say, the maist
t an’ disgraced themselves! Callum, efter hearin’ the complain
Steam pourin’ oot his ears, Callum turned his gaze oan them. “
ey were a shambles!” ranted Callum, noo thoroughly warmed up tae
15 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nk you from me to michael and callum - b oan lads (2020) twitter link
CallumCarsonWLC enjoy ur game callum - broxburn v camelon looks a (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
et ye canna wyte te meet her, Callum?" on page 91
"Callum's upstairs. Ah think his nose on page 93
"Granda te Callum." He chaps his knuckles again on page 94
"See aat Callum - she likes ye." Granda grin on page 97

7 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
"Callum get yer back side doon es sta
d but niver hid ony sheen on! Callum’s mam was aye wis in a flap
i door in time for school but Callum isna viry good at gettin ridy
Ere goes Callum troddin bain the road fan he
I loly pop mannie watches Callum cross i roadie thinkin to him
50 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
@RossAndrew7 @CallumC19 haha callum i would do the exact opposite(2013) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
week, by a topper o a loon - Callum. #lairnscots #scotslanguage # (2020) twitter link

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