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Use in varieties of Scots

ferocious Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences41 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of ferocious in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Wi paintit face, ferocious cries, An rid an flowin hair, on page 5

1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Pictur o Misery, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
The ferocious sunlicht bleedin on page 68

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A most ferocious black-back hid taen a swipe f on page 56

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ae colonies staandin beak tae ferocious beak, lack at Hermaness. Na, on page 91

1 matches

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