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Use in varieties of Scots

geese Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13 13.7 12 9.9 11.6 20.7 8.9
Number of occurrences4227 8 1 2 2 2
Number of authors27 14 6 1 2 2 2

Occurrences of geese in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
An Killt an Cairved the Geese on page 30

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
nt drawn bi a flocht o Canada Geese, fleein south. Kate luit him on page 30

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Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
An wild geese gie on page 35

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
Coos and cuddies, geese and clockers, Aw maun darg oo on page 6

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
us cries O sea~-mews an solan geese as they soared abune like ang on page 31

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Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
rawn tae ma door by the cry o geese - on page 83

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
He kept thoosans o deuks and geese. He wis a kind o kettlebellie on page 3
'Deuks and geese!' skirled the Wee Tods, slaik on page 51
e sonsiest sappiest deuks and geese, aw pookit and buskit, ready on page 52
doot we'd better hae a puckle geese... Three will be mair than en on page 54
the cairts, and the deuks and geese and hams and bacon were ladit on page 56
Also on pages 75
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Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
And if I want some geese or kye, on page 18

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Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ched the holm, a flock o grey geese raise frae the meedow wi an a on page 17

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Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
o a Summer's, wi the wild wud geese honkin and singin heich in th on page 136

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
, buzzin draginflea, winterin geese. Plays mither fir birthin, sp on page 52

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Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
in a thing aboot puddocks, or geese, or brammles, or coos. on page 99

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
I saw aa the wild geese, spreid ower the loch. on page 97

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Abuin the sklentan loch geese cowp
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
words, lik a sindert flock o geese. Ilka side o the 'flock' shaw
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
– chickens, Muscovy ducks, geese and even some guinea fowl. Th
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
Kye, geese, horse and bubbly-jockies,
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Rennie, Susan The Muckle Michty Neep, (self-published 2021) Central, poetry
t helped her feed the hens an geese.
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@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
Angus Straths I saw the wild geese flee/ A lang, lang skein o be(2018) search twitter

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
s in a luveless oxter an wull geese wadgin northart nae sterns ta on page 3

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"An airm, ya geese! Who ever saw wan at size? Wh on page 35

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
at New Deer keepit dyeuks an geese in his fairm pond – muckle
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
e Doric phrase “gon n gar im geese at” which translates to want(2018) search twitter
Ah filmed this flock i' #geese fleein ower ma son’s grave i(2018) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
The geese settling doon last nicht http(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Angus straths I saw the wild geese flee, A lang, lang skein o’ (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ay saying, it's "as common as Geese wae bare feet" in the hills a (2020) twitter link

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
mess o geese, fan o flooers, fine on page 23

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Bonxies, solan geese, draatsi, yul-girs and frog o(2013) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae high above a skein o' geese on page 38

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Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
til the wund, whyle the wyld geese abuin,
1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ats an coallie dugs, Turkeys, geese an banties, an a lock o doos on page 20

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Hume, David Aince the corncrake caa’ed, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
A hae seen the wile geese wing,
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