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Use in varieties of Scots

creature Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 7.2 0 9.9 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1814 0 1 1 0 2
Number of authors15 11 1 1 2

Occurrences of creature in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ae much fancy the look ae the creature, bit she thought tae hersel, on page 92

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
he years Nick had his various creature comforts forby my mither. No on page 70

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
corner ae the room. This tiny creature wis tryin tae swing oantae th on page 14

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a strange wee creature on page 59

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O creature, out ma licht: ma siccar en on page 44

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
O creature, oot ma licht: ma siccar en on page 59

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
e mourn the passin o a fellow creature on page 13

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
The creature slunk oot, but iz eyes wurnae on page 20

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
dart realisations o the wirds creature an idiot is ascrived tae Hibe
1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
bein hunted doon by a made-up creature'?"
. The next thing seen wis the creature's return, as it pushed Abby o
hat is wan!" Liam stated. The creature's eyes widened at hearin that
3 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
e them different except for a creature, sum kin o bogle or sperrit,
1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
lso Barry Ferguson is a swamp creature. https://t.co/NZNRNqE11A (2018) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Take this wretched creature tae Kirkwall on page 18

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2021) Shetland
body tell me what dis strange creature fae da deep dis is?

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
nae that fond o the luk o the creature, but aal thegither shae thoch on page 93

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
A'd niver tracked a creature doon on page 46

1 matches

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