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Use in varieties of Scots

laverock Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 0 0 11.6 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1612 0 0 2 0 2
Number of authors11 7 2 2

Occurrences of laverock in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Laverock's rose oan shimmering wings o on page 20

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ed knees o hills or held in a laverock's glance on a time. on page ix

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
hunner miles ower his heid a laverock begun tae sing. on page 71
Ye can see a laverock singin, on page 76

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the laverock abune the grass-clamped dunes on page 112

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ae oot o its smirr and reek a laverock rose heich intil the air and on page 17
paque, airth-turned base. Nae laverock had faushioned this. Raither on page 18

2 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The laverock tweetlin in the caller air on page 49

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Nae laverock kyths ower heich on page 79

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
flock, includin ‘The sober laverock, warbling wild’, ‘The bon
ere is a Scots riddle: ‘The laverock and the lark, The bawkie and
wer, ye’ll ken, is twa. The laverock and the lark is the same thin
3 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
martins fur a single laverock i da lift
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Loving da laverock geein it laldy :-) my first s(2015) search twitter

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
up (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or Laverock (Skylark) recently? Or have y(2020) search twitter

@HurchinHome tweeted
k "dailygan", "carnaptious", "laverock", "queelrod" an "hurchin"!(2014) search twitter