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Use in varieties of Scots

cuckoo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5 4.4 0 0 0 11.6
Number of occurrences1610 3 0 0 0 3
Number of authors8 4 1 3

Occurrences of cuckoo in Corpus

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Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
o' a creepy Wan Flew O'er the Cuckoo's Nest thing. There's none o' on page

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n; titlene meadow pipit; gouk cuckoo; dou dove; laverok lark) on page 23

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The Cuckoo On Foswell Hill
a lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill,
A lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill,
a lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill.
the lanely cuckoo called fae Foswell hill.
5 matches

McDonald, Alistair Lallans 59 - Huntegowk, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Netherlee, poetry
Sing tae me, cuckoo, loud an clear;
Sing tae me true, sing “Cuckoo”.
Caa “Cuckoo” loud as the best, then
3 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wee timmer mou an craiked “Cuckoo, Cuckoo.” Bit yon wis aa it
, Cuckoo.” Bit yon wis aa it iver sa
spring, an insteid o cryin “Cuckoo”, aa that it
3 matches

Ulster

Hume, David Aince the corncrake caa’ed, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
A hae hear’d the cuckoo caa
1 matches

@fairfaaye tweeted
heard a Whaup (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or Laverock (Skylark) recent(2020) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
wheeked an apostrophe intae "cuckoo's" ana! @celticissimo (2015) twitter link

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