| hangman | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occurences normalised per million words | 3.7 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 39.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Number of occurrences | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Number of authors | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
gain wid kill him gleg as ony hangman could. on page 46
!" the sodger shoutit, as the hangman pit the rope aroond his neck. on page 47
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
want o a hangman, sae Johnnie leuks like he's
hangman, while the weemin in the form
Johnnie hissel shuid be the hangman as lang's he mairries yin o t
embarrassment at the want o a hangman afore his rival Edinburgh sae
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Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ike, Maggie o Quoys, when the hangman tightens the rope? Will I cry on page 20
it's heaven for thee. And the hangman on Gallows Ha for me. on page 23
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Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
it's heaven for thee. An the hangman on Gallowsha for me. on page 77
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