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Use in varieties of Scots

sain Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 5.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences1411 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of sain in Corpus

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Central

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
the whilk war sain bi his hagiographer tae hae r on page 6

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
aw, wi haund licht wafted tae sain on page 13
eir guns the bigot tribes tae sain on page 31
Their Irish sain or ban on page 48

3 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
whan sain the sailors haed eatit anithe on page 82

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
the daith yer Son tholed tae sain us, on page 97

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The sain tae aa my pynes belyve she'd on page 43

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
his prayers. “God Almichty, sain me an sauf me frae aa this!â€
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
uld Scots wird, they store an sain,
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

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
clear his een, Wi glib notes sain the simmerÂ’s green. Robert F (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Samuel dat he wis ta geng an sain wan o Jesse's sons fir da boy on page 23

2 matches

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