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Use in varieties of Scots

dowf Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 8.2 1.5 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences1916 1 0 0 2 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of dowf in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 82 - The Gowden Boat, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
coorie-doun bi the riverside, dowf an alane. on page 15

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
wuman's land. The bell gied a dowf tingil, deid fent, mair like on page 136

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
Scabbit rigs, cauldrife an dowf, the bleestert trees wytin fi on page 8

1 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Juist a thimmle," said Alison dowf-like. on page 27
ent!" Alison reponed in a wee dowf vyce. on page 44

6 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
sit dowf afore the fremit telly on page 77

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
. For months efterhaun he wis dowf an dowie, an spake no a word on page 54

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
us Teeger. Because he'll be a Dowf and Dowie Teeger, a Seik and on page 104

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
the souch ... he wes shuirlie dowf this evenin, fur the'r semed on page 2

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wha ken nae seacraft, dowf o brain an bouk on page 30

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
growed mair dowie an dowf. Thon wes the warst tyme, afo
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
they chaffit an flexit thair dowf shanks back intae motion, vyc
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
r stammygastert aifter aa his dowf predeections; an thocht "Weel on page 25

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Dowie an dowf – shilpit an fauch, wi lang
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
In the whyte esps the dowf wunds souch;
1 matches

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