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Use in varieties of Scots

shairn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 8.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1716 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of shairn in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
happit in skitters o stirk's shairn. A taen a meenit's brek tae g on page 22

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
Oor darg tills the sile, oor shairn fertilises it, and aye there on page 6

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cked oot the byre, cowpin the shairn on the midden forenent the ho on page 25
er his threshold intae midden shairn - nor wad bairns - God will on page 27
the bad snaw came, an cairtin shairn tae the rigs when it didnae - on page 55
reels tae cairry the peats an shairn, or whittled awa at hazel sti on page 56
the stack, an the same load o shairn tae the ngs. An it wis nae bo on page 57
Also on pages 60
7 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
troke, owerslairkt in orts an shairn, on page 33

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
barley gotten by in the coo's shairn. A cuid thole the wee deevils on page 80

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ld Mr Gray got the ming o dog shairn throu the fresh scent o the s
ae plowterin intil the heap o shairn wi a chork. He didnae notice
2 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
r labour teels the grund, wir shairn mucks it, and yet the’r no
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e wi the scroggy twigs an yak shairn that had been colleckit for c
1 matches

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eepth o amoral heepocreetocal shairn traipsing nae Wordsworthian c(2020) search twitter

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
lowp up owernicht fesst up bi shairn on page 3

1 matches

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