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Use in varieties of Scots

rifts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences63 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of rifts in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Ma doo in the rifts o the rock, on page 4

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
don't want ony unions causin rifts. on page 71

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
narrator readin ma book. His rifts ur that potent A catch whiffs
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y fae skails doon is front an rifts efter ilky moofu - dinna win on page 45

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
trapple buddered wi brunt rifts on page 35

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
At Bangor ma rifts thunner on page 47

1 matches

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