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Use in varieties of Scots

float Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 3.6 21.1 9.9 5.8 31 0
Number of occurrences267 14 1 1 3 0
Number of authors16 6 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of float in Corpus

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Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
chin tae hae a bit basket tae float her oot on page 49

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e in the water an noo she can float wi oot the rubber airm bands on page 14

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
drivin no a float or van on page 38

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
e in the water an noo she can float wi oot the rubber airm bands
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Bit then the milkman's float gaes by;
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
to float or die
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
s a walking shite he wid just float, we need tae fire that rocket(2020) search twitter

Doric

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
float on thi claggy lithosphere. Va on page 83

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
child's play Inside a cattle float they'd heaps O tatties, carro on page 15

2 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Thi slick's float on, Mile aifter mile, on page 35
aboot, grabben oneythein eit float's, jist en caise. Noo, eif on on page 48
h. Yea wid jist feel yer lyne float up a beit, thein yer feish wi on page 57

3 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Relax and float doon I'Don on page 124
Jeannie's in i'pageant on a float on page 156
Diz it f-f-f-float? (Bath day) on page 165

4 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
rm passes, pieces o jewellery float intae the air then vanish niv on page 118

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
shafts o the twa wheeled milk float, an trot roon the streets nea
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
lee. Bit the wee quinie didna float; fur this wis nae story. The
1 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
its heid. McDougal seemed tae float ower tae his dug. “Yev Kill
1 matches

Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - Five Signs, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Dae yi float or dae yi sink? on page 16

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
lik a creamola foam ice cream float(2018) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
44. The Boats Float: Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
THE BOATS FLOAT
float alang as licht as feathers.
3 matches

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