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Use in varieties of Scots

erses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 8 7.4 0 0 10.3 9.7
Number of occurrences2416 5 0 0 1 2
Number of authors20 14 3 1 2

Occurrences of erses in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
thir erses waarm, thir wee machine fou on page 32

1 matches

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
beamed bricht red like skelpt erses if ye went onywhere near them on page 76

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
meinits ago, get aff yer lazy erses an get back til yer darg!" on page 86

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
osive! So, we huv tae got wur erses in gear cos it's the repeatin on page

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Rather sit oan their erses, an pat their ain backs, on page 16

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
auld enough tae wipe oor ain erses. It didnae matter whether it on page 95

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
tartan on the muin, frae sexy erses tae saunnies. Aw oor lives in on page x
fever, reams o rinnie noses, erses tae on page 51
And they get their wee erses liftit. on page 83

3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Ye wee middens. Ah'll gie yer erses tallywheech whan ah gi haud o on page 65

1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
uckle ataa. They perked their erses in the ae place and sat aboot
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
The mainstream media’s erses squeak aboot Scots because it
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Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
eeky Thur mither skelped thur erses sair An’ sent the pair e”
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Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Or laither yer erses, nocht tae expone;
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@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
xiteers say comes oot o their erses.(2018) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
me, why ur ye mitherin me(?) Erses. ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ome rinnin if a fart in their erses gings wrang. In ither words a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae scowp oot an skelp their erses!(2017) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Plinty time to be up tae were erses in sna.(2020) search twitter
tdogs I hope she nipped their erses. Well done ????(2020) search twitter
scotdogs Hope he nipped their erses!(2020) search twitter

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
parking his brogues up a few erses if he saw the state of the to(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Smert-erses gied oor team nae chaunce on page 41

1 matches

Adams, Rab Yarns 3 - A Ghost Story, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
d lie thar quait lik, tae oor erses wur weet, an wey cunny houl c
1 matches

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