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Use in varieties of Scots

fleece Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.1 3 9.9 0 20.7 8.9
Number of occurrences114 2 1 0 2 2
Number of authors10 3 2 1 2 2

Occurrences of fleece in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
He had fand an auld sheep fleece on page 34

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
she cannae staun up cos her fleece is owre-droukit. on page 74
Greece, Amalfi an the Gowden Fleece. on page 77

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
- he wad skin it an cure the fleece; an it wis the warmth o thae on page 56

1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
me tae ye wappit in a yowie's fleece, bit in aneth are course bree on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he deid lammie's and ties its fleece roon the ootlinn. Yowes arena
1 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Waet, Johnny's fleece feels lumpy on page 105

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A muckle cast o' horns and fleece on page 25

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
her fleece, heavy wi peaty water, on page 151

1 matches

Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Its fleece wus whie as sna on page 14

1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
intheface Is that thon Veedon Fleece he's houlin'? I'm glad him an(2019) search twitter

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