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Use in varieties of Scots

shired Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 1 0 0 0 0 19.3
Number of occurrences72 0 0 0 0 5
Number of authors7 2 5

Occurrences of shired 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

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
scrolls, paper shired as the wind. on page 22

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
njuret hissel gettin his heid shired. He cam ower til his buird an
1 matches

Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
is weel fed how weel tha heid shired sapplin an dookin on page 30

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tae mae shired heid on page 53

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
foond tha banes got his heid shired an minded tha jaa banes. He j on page 14

1 matches

@fairfaaye tweeted
esel, I need tae get mae heid shired'. This great colloquial Ulste(2020) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
Thank ye @MarkThompDesign! "Shired" it is! Yin o those bonnie wu (2014) twitter link

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