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Use in varieties of Scots

shadow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 9.3 9 49.7 17.4 31 8.9
Number of occurrences3718 6 5 3 3 2
Number of authors28 14 5 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of shadow in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
the dunkey ye hired, no it's shadow." on page 18

1 matches

McClure, Rob nothing but a set of eyes for stars - The Night, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
gurred at its own flickering shadow on page 101

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oubt Thatcher did cast a dark shadow acroass the workin class land on page 89
ently and watches. Then he'll shadow me as ah prepare oor breakfas on page 156

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
r - not after today. She's a shadow o the Granny ah thought ah kn on page 36

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
An it cast a big shadow - a real scary sight. on page 26

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Or underneath the shadow vast of patriarchal tree, on page 69

1 matches

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 58 - twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Nae shadow nor reflection, nae footprint on page 95

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e is the son o Sir Micklemast Shadow, wha claimt ti hae cum doun f
doun frae Falstaff’s Simon Shadow. The faither, seeminlie, aunt
2 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
tae compensate fur deepening shadow. 1-2-3-4-5- the licht in oor
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
d (later renamed This Walking Shadow) wis aheid o its time an aa.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ma age, fuckin five o’cloak shadow an that, but the rest ay thum
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ng moved then: the light, the shadow o the yella plants fae the fi
lb in the lobby I see Ali’s shadow, looking oot, looking fir me:
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Irene McGugan MSP, Shadow Depute Minister for Children
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y street - man u r no even a shadow o a club noo imo (2020) twitter link

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
randpa was little mair than a shadow o the man he'd been afore. Bl on page 75
air than a ghost livin in the shadow o their auld life thegether. on page 77

2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
lk o the whisky, left a cauld shadow on Bert Dugald's hairt. Accor on page 118

1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
fae, the loon watched a stout shadow ging fleein aff tae mak sicca
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
_davidson Yi must bide in the shadow o yon michty transmitter.(2019) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
EEPY-GAWPY. Orkney word for a shadow picture on the waa #lairnscot (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
Piggie saa Tam's fleean shadow, an defily swung aside. on page 79

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Poor Jim wis cheust a shadow o the man he used tae be. on page 24

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a shadow on page 5
touched silent bae the shadow on page 6

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
the morning sun. Here, in the shadow o the only vertical-striped l
1 matches

Shetland

Mainland, Jim Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
or wis gluffed be his ain shadow waalkin at night, on page 28

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
A shadow slinks trowe da daek on page 32

1 matches

Tait, Christian Da Hegri, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
Sweems inta da shadow o dy faersome neb.
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A shadow forms "where is the licht" on page 16
In ma shadow a' else they bask on page 20
A shadow cast, the tree it fell on page 23

3 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Shadow guid' haes gi'n thine leadin' on page 28
Deep shadow casts on page 40

2 matches

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