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Use in varieties of Scots

fives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.5 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences75 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of fives in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ah used tae. Right, so: four fives are twelve, an four sixes are on page 19

1 matches

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
challenge. She yased tae play fives at Leith links, likes. Ah yas on page 34

1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
ward tae the fitba the night #fives(2013) search twitter
he mood tae play fitba, fancy fives(2013) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Ye,'ll still be able tae play fives wi yir neebors. (2022) twitter link

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
wan metre forty an guid up in fives. I passed on da first twartee
1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
know. Wait tae wae see: Fower fives ir twalve, an fower sax ir th on page 19

1 matches

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