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Use in varieties of Scots

eld Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.4 14.9 0 0 11.6 0 23.2
Number of occurrences3830 0 0 2 0 6
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of eld 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
nic each the night. We see an eld alky stoatin doon the lane in on page 12
shake ma heed it ma pal. The eld boy's eyes ir as wide as two- on page 13
tryin tae put oot bonfires ae eld, built by our fair hands n de on page 14
wild. Laughin like fuck. The eld boy looks through the fence n on page 15
ugh, still thinkin aboot that eld boy's empty two-penny eyes. on page 16
Also on pages 17, 18, 33, 38, 39, 47, 49, 51
30 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a stone field, a weet field.' on page 20

2 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
es a thïng at tha hans o tha eldérs, tha heid preeshts an tha on page 9
eerd tell o Jesus, he axt sum eldèrs o tha Jews tae fin oot ï on page 80
l an be coul shoothert bi tha eldèrs, tha heich preeshts an th on page 85
a maistèrs o tha Laa, an tha eldèrs amang tha fowk cum up tae on page 103
ers o tha temple gaird an tha eldèrs, that haed cum oot tae ta on page 108

6 matches

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