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Use in varieties of Scots

screws Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 8.5 6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2317 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors13 9 2 1 1

Occurrences of screws in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
taste away. A laugh as Monica screws hur face up. Patricia hands h on page 26

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
Yakcam wis bendin ower pittin screws intil the bottom hinge o a do on page 86

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
k ae ma neck. Wonderin if the screws'll come oan the first yell. on page 1

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e nocht, tho a wee turn o the screws at Mauchlin micht gar yer tho on page 45

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
we a few screws loose. on page 63

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
haud them up or ye get eneugh screws intil them sae's they'll no f on page 65

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
an ettilt tae lowse the bress screws o the big auld hinges but cui on page 96
ythly pouin oot auld nails an screws, wi the aid o Clancy's spoudj on page 97
amy o whaivver haed drave the screws in wi a hemmer. Montgomery's on page 98

7 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
laundin an flang green-faced screws oot the cell sae thai cuid se on page 18

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
el, o decades o tichtenin the screws o economic an military hegemo
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
l it connects wi the ball. He screws a bit mair, richt intae the b

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
opps got a mannerism where he screws up his face n knashes his tee (2021) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
aboot your roses?" Susie screws up her face an says." I'll sh
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
d, ony auld bolts or nails or screws, wad en up sometime in his we
a wee pucklie screws left ower. Ye wad hae thocht
screws an bolts.
3 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
r) turned (by fork) made into screws then biggid into a s (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Thair were washers, nails an screws an things an the odd auld rus on page 10

1 matches

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