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lightning Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3 0 19.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences96 0 2 1 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of lightning in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
...a great lightning amongst the Clouds, which wer
or his description o “forky lightning frae a cloud” an syne a ‘
2 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
rain, wi torn white flashes o lightning through their centres so's ye
1 matches

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
The puir lassie git struck by lightning, struck doon deid. When they
assie? The lassie murdered by lightning? Nah, ah had tae dae it. Ah h
he lassie brought tae life by lightning.
3 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thunder, lightning, sunshine and shower, on page 29

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thunder, lightning, sunshine and shower, I haad on page 155

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Thunder and lightning here daday and da heavens hiv (2018) twitter link