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choir Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 7.9 5.9 0 0 10.3 3.9
Number of occurrences2216 4 0 0 1 1
Number of authors15 9 4 1 1

Occurrences of choir in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ers, And ye'd soon joined the choir, a lovely wee voice, the Youn on page 80

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
For tae jine the choir invisible. on page 6

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
uil's Christmas assembly. The choir hed bin singin "O Christmas t on page 85
at the choir hed managed tae keep singin a on page 86

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
was to say Mass and a special choir had come a distance. Their ch on page 3

6 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
on't want tae hear your cats' choir. Charlene jist laughed. Moan on page 95

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Smaa toun wifie sings in the choir - W on page 17

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
, anchor, Bacchic, character, choir, chord, chorus, christen, Chr
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
an the FPs’ choir wha sang his favourite All in
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
adges, the yins that said "Bu Choir". That didnae mean "Yes", mai
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
e skriechin wind in a hellish choir. The trees creaked and groane
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
nted like gowd, an the schule choir sang wi their sweet bairns
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
troops or jist us?? I'll gie choir a miss me thinks or i'll nae (2012) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
deen The Fittie Sunday School Choir, live fae St.Clements church (2018) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
brawest ‘mang the whistling choir, That, ere the sun can clear (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
It's nature's choir, she now displays on page 22

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
A choir o yellae-legged gulls wi legs on page 44

1 matches

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