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Use in varieties of Scots

locusts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0.5 4.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences61 3 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 1 3 1 1

Occurrences of locusts in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
Eatin Locusts on page 5

1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ot his wyste, an his maet wis locusts an bum bees' hunny. E fowk fl on page 9

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ng clean in, a plague o furry locusts.
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
sease. Plooks. Thunnerstorms. Locusts. Darkness. Firstborn loons dr
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
in i da desert an livin aff o locusts an wild honey. Bit he wis a g on page 83

1 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
k of Ruth. I'm a hoor for the locusts.(2016) search twitter