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Use in varieties of Scots

clearances Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 4.5 0 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences129 0 0 2 1 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of clearances in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
clearances o awthing which aye made on page 32
r stervin acause o the Lallan Clearances. on page 56

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hin fer the rich. The Lowland clearances which had seen the fermtoun f on page 82

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Afore war, peace or clearances on page 48

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
on the hackneyed theme o the Clearances. MacLean wes a poet wha maist on page 95

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
uage syne the 1872 linguistic clearances. For millions o Scots bairns,
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
e the boss o’ the game. The Clearances took awa’ oor finest, did t
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
ncestors were involved in the Clearances comin oot wi guff like that! (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ves through hard times lik da Clearances https://t.co/Yp06aal3F9(2018) search twitter
ime in Scottish history - Da Clearances. http://t.co/6CTsLXhfBe(2014) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
storic_Ally Dinnae forget the Clearances doon by here in the sooth for(2020) search twitter