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Use in varieties of Scots

scaffold Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 3 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of scaffold in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
up tae Joe's hoose an aw the scaffold bits are lyin oan the front g on page 7

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
scaffold, ready tae dee. on page 47

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
position at the bottom ay the scaffold, much tae the hilarity ay the
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
1 Naw, ah wish he wis oan the scaffold(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
n the neuk o the fire, like a scaffold, braid showder beens powkin u on page 51

1 matches

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