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Use in varieties of Scots

sheeps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences63 1 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of sheeps in Corpus

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Central

Briggs, Susi Atween the lines o Muirland Meg, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
nd aw Meg will get is a manky sheeps cloot
“Fer a sheeps cloot she'll do it and do it
2 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
He disnae live er! Aw a uvver sheeps giein him evils... “whit ye (2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
wk that ait dogs, raw fish an sheeps'" een Golachs an ostriches - on page 15

1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Sheeps wool clings on tae the shire on page 16

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ose, an du's gyaain ta swee a sheeps heid atil her poshest room!" on page 64

1 matches

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