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Use in varieties of Scots

fingernails Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 5.5 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1211 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 8 1

Occurrences of fingernails in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
bitten fingernails, shattered plans. on page 98

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aff wan haun wi Tipex coatet fingernails an wee green pictures; then s on page 25
id, Aye did yi see the clatty fingernails she had. Ah said, Aye. She sa on page 169

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Clingin on and brakkin fingernails and aw on page 5

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and under her fingernails on page 11

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
id, Aye did yi see the clatty fingernails she hud. Ah said, Aye. She sa
ains aw doon the front an her fingernails wur still boggin. After we go
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n oan tae the windae sill, ma fingernails diggin intae the pointed mort
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
s in ma guts, it’s unner ma fingernails an’ it’s a’ that ah see
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
, the rest embeddin unner her fingernails. The entire time, she wis hau
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
No fingernails, on page 18

1 matches

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