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Use in varieties of Scots

shour Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 0.5 3 0 0 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences61 2 0 0 1 2
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of shour in Corpus

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Central

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
on the end o't. Strowth! The shour went on an the drapes werna p on page 118

1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wheisht, an tain the first shour efter a wis freed frae the mo
The shour wis braw mind Peggy, an a row
2 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
wi a soun lyke a shour o rain. on page 36

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
wunner, fur the nixt minute a shour o wee stains come rattlin in on page 40
e-irons come furst; an thin a shour o saucepins, plates, an bouls on page 59

2 matches

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