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Use in varieties of Scots

scarecrow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 3 9.9 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences51 2 1 0 0 1
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of scarecrow in Corpus

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Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
Prototype Calvin Whitshisname scarecrow? ??. ????. ??????????????. ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
medical mungerel: a surgical scarecrow. Ye're the United Nations, Pa on page 40

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
great Doric wirdie fit means Scarecrow.(2014) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
mack stuck up a fierce-lukkan scarecrow - hid seun lay in bits on th on page 16

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hae an Ulster Scots wurd for "scarecrow"? Caa them "tattie bogles" up (2014) twitter link