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Use in varieties of Scots

floods Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4 4.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences138 3 1 0 0 1
Number of authors11 7 2 1 1

Occurrences of floods in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
hat didnae know him tae be in floods ae tears. on page 11

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
The relief floods ayr me as we exit the stage, on page 3

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Still floods our veins, an nevvir will aba on page 129

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ma mind floods wi gossip she'd no right tae on page 29

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
uid back-en spate. The Lammas floods were the warst, an a wat Augu on page 17

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
hail lik gowf baws and flash floods in Kosovo. So far, A’ve man
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
laund here is rich, the Naver floods nou an again, makkin great du
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
The floods o last year an the rain on page 17

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
st o the folk left aifter the floods back in the twenty fifties, p
€˜But, that’s because o the floods, and the flood’s werna oor
2 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a heavy door oppens and light floods in. A shackled lass is haeved on page 20

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
gged it up tae rise Abane tha floods tae stay. on page 69

1 matches

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