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Use in varieties of Scots

comfortin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 6.6 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1513 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of comfortin in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
tryin tae comfort himself by comfortin me. on page 32

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
aud oot the cauld, it wis the comfortin lowe o that peat fire that gi on page 56
's shouders an gied her a wee comfortin squeeze. on page 79

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ly, whole minutes in advance. Comfortin, but it also means ye baith h on page 3

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
This comfortin conversation is abruptly inte on page 80
Ah stare at her aw comfortin. "That's a shame. Ah'm alweys on page 140

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Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
lish 'accent', eh? It's warm, comfortin, unthreitenin - gey close in
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Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
ot. Ah feel that ah should be comfortin' ye, but ah dinnae ken the wo
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e an auld friend. A strangely comfortin sensation that comes wae fami
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ain. Being Emily is juist as comfortin tae hae on yer lap.
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Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
tae yer bed.’ Usually those comfortin sounds, that gentle touch, wi
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
r ae factly. In an attempt at comfortin him. ‘’Ah’m a calmin in
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Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the door their neebour wiz in comfortin his wife. His wife’s een we
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lin da waarmness o him, an da comfortin rhythm o his purrin. on page 30

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