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Use in varieties of Scots

sacrifice Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.1 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences108 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 2

Occurrences of sacrifice in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
uid's gien tae Odin. Thon wis sacrifice o war,' 'Brian Boru? Did he u on page 14

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
A human sacrifice o yersel on page 119

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tor micht huv been willin tae sacrifice his jaicket, on page xvi
but ah'm no willin tae sacrifice mine. Ah move, so the bottom on page xvii

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
on o the biblical god o bluid sacrifice, demandit by the public servi
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ist ease ma ain pain. A human sacrifice, if yae will? An accident tha
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
So, in a rare moment ae self-sacrifice aw’s that’s left fur me t
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
ctually appreciate yer ritual sacrifice.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ik, myne. An Pase is a time o sacrifice. There'll be nae bleed spilt on page 8

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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Day pls reflect upon ultimate sacrifice o servicemin/weemen in wars, (2019) search twitter

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