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Use in varieties of Scots

dresses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 5.6 6 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1811 4 1 0 0 2
Number of authors13 8 3 1 1

Occurrences of dresses 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

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a seamstress repairin wumen's dresses. They hud.two lassies, Angela on page 37

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ause A dinnae hae dwams fu ae dresses an cake, on page 12

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nothin tae dae wi the way she dresses or the stuff she's intae or e on page 169

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ate up oan one salary. No one dresses their children in second-hand on page 89

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
rica as a backgrun. The white dresses o the menfowk, the red stoori on page 91

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
shaw'd the dead in their last dresses;
shaw'd the deid in their last dresses;
2 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
alls of Bruar. Aw the lassies dresses n skirts wurr gettin’ blawn
ies wurr awready wearin their dresses n skirts like a belt.
their short revealin sequined dresses wit they paid a fiver fur oot
3 matches

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cationScot My braw wee lassie dresses up as...? #WorldBookDay https(2019) search twitter

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She think o' him an so she dresses in bleck on page 91

2 matches

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
For bigger joabs like makin dresses an' frocks
1 matches

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
ur me – Ah mind thon bonnie dresses still...
1 matches

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Green and purple dresses flittan cross the sky on page 90

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
red, velvet dresses an cairied fur muffs, an the on page 24
photograph wur weemen in lang dresses. an wide-brimmed hats; tae th on page 58

2 matches

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