metaphor | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 5.2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 10.3 | 4.4 | |
Number of occurrences | 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Number of authors | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
l park up tae the loch. Every metaphor and simile is perfect, and he on page 7
1 matches
Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
t it hed tae be some kinn o a metaphor. It cuidna be rael. Then, tho on page 89
1 matches
Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Metaphor? on page 98
as a metaphor for a poor man's strife. on page 104
2 matches
Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
wer again, sae it's a gey apt metaphor fir the quest fir Scottish id on page 84
1 matches
Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
k up tae the reservoir. Every metaphor and simile is perfect, and he on page 23
1 matches
Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
erence between a simile and a metaphor?" There was anither chap on t on page 37
1 matches
Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
The tree o the pit's as much metaphor on page 107
1 matches
Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
lin seems ti be a gey popular metaphor this time roun!). In 'Nae Gui on page 7
1 matches
Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ical forbye. The wecht o deid metaphor hings havy on Inglis style: a
canna mak a play on siccan a metaphor aless he or she can lippen ta
2 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e Bridge, A've read as bein a metaphor for the poet's residency an t
1 matches