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Use in varieties of Scots

knots Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences138 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors11 7 3 1

Occurrences of knots in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a guid mony things, and tyin knots wis jist wan o them. The on page 116

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
knots in glaur the roots o hogsweed on page 112

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Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
in their legs and airms up in knots. And in the efterninns he cha on page 3

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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in and oot. Ma stomach’s in knots at the thocht o wee bastart c
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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
ance luiked like great muckle knots.
ites had got themsels tied in knots an, at first, Kat cudna work
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MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
me. Mah tummy wis a fankle o' knots, tangled 'n' tightenin wi' il
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@Chazzbat tweeted
in the West hud heard o Bantu knots. Ma mither certainly hudnae. (2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
He musta been deein fowerteen knots an showen nay seyn's a slowen on page 48

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Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
roons, grippit in the swirlie knots o bruckle, thristie roots. on page 24

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
flesh as it were, through the knots an twists o heather on that h
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ma shooders ache and my back knots up in the same places as at a
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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
da Dormoose began at a rate o knots; "an der names wis Elsie, Lac on page 74

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