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Use in varieties of Scots

comet Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5.5 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1311 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of comet in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
Comet on page 9

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
like a thing that fell aff a comet's detritus: on page 132

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Nae comet lichted thon dairk, driech pl on page 23

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ww.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/english/comet/starn.htm on page 15

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
94 throu the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. This fiery besom haed gane b
oond o oor Sun Gird. The word comet haes its oreeginal in the aul
tae Greek een the tail o the comet wis hair like. Amang speakers
soopit wi. The'r twa kinds o comet. The first is the bide-awee c
4 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Bleezin lik some digital comet,
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
flit the sistem, like a rogue comet? Agalis fer peedie staens tae on page 104
heu mynds on than that even a comet is rived by the weyght o whit on page 163

2 matches

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