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Use in varieties of Scots

divide Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.4 10.1 1.5 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2420 1 0 2 1 0
Number of authors15 11 1 2 1

Occurrences of divide in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Yase Macavellian concept - divide and conquer. on page 32

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
A bit like steyin here. Folk divide theirsells in a wee place. If on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tentionally provoked a bigger divide by statin: "Dinnae mind her, on page 31
atcher managed tae bridge the divide between Leith and Gorgie. It on page 88

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Divide an rule, there is nae frienly on page 31

1 matches

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
An ayont thon great divide, whaur on page 135

1 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Tap Table, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
aye grunchin ower the Cypriot divide. on page 117

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ak. It’s no a North/Central divide aither – Gamrie in Buchan a
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Whaur A'll divide an multiply
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
th sides o the constitutional divide. Whit group wull they, can th
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ivin on tae a new fundamental divide.
e rederendum, the fundamental divide is atween the pairties o the
o the aulder Labour vs. Tory divide, it seems the fowk o Scotland
vs. Tory wis the fundamental divide i Scots politics. Noo that a
cots politics. Noo that a new divide is openin up, the Labour jaik
8 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
y wi an unalike manifesto wad divide the Perty north an sooth o th
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
portScot This is aye goin tae divide folk, but if whit we see on t (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ooth-moothers. The equatorial divide nae langer hid ony meanin, fu
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e') spleet intae a nort/sooth divide fae da airly 13t on page 59

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
divide wis; mak wis kinda wary on page 92

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
d bad, a fausely biggit class divide tae ding it doon. Scots is fi (2020) twitter link