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Use in varieties of Scots

quair Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.7 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1511 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of quair in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Thon quair weys that kythe Ah'm no fashe on page 52
The hale warl's gan baith quair an peerie, heelster-gowdie, t on page 77

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
his heid an hert an unread quair on page 68

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Nae pairt o this quair shuid be
1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
But thon’s a weel-kent quair needin nae retellin. Whit the
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
uscript, is a gey significant quair o Early Modern Scots poetry.
ate unnersung – poem in the quair is anonymous; as are aroond a
2 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Tae Ilka Scots Makar an Scriever, (twitter.com 2022) Central, poetry
ns get telt gin ye furthset a quair
1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - MacCaig’s draucht oan the waa, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
He had the sain o aa the quair fowk
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
copie o @StuartPoet brent new quair. Ma wee granweans Fiona & Fab(2020) search twitter
airtit on the subjeck, an the quair that gies ye the ammunition t(2020) search twitter

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ulloch hid ayweys bin a richt quair place, so his faither had tel on page 84

3 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
fir either 'busy' or 'ugly'. Quair auld quiz an a wheen o spelli(2020) search twitter