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Use in varieties of Scots

shaif Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences50 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors1 1

Occurrences of shaif in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
1. THE CLYACK SHAIF
st boorich o corn, the clyack shaif, wytin tae be sheared, trimml
y, the Leddrach fowk caad the shaif 'The Maiden'. Gin it hid bin
hey liftit Minnie grippin the shaif ontae Fauldie's back, an lead
hoose gairden gate like a bun shaif.
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