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Use in varieties of Scots

sighan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences51 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of sighan in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
wid steer the hairth's sighan ash an lowse on page 112

1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Moose, turnan till Alice, an sighan. on page 27
nearer, Alice could hear him sighan as if his heart wid break. Sh on page 90
, so he did," sade e Gryphon, sighan in his turn; an both craters on page 94

3 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Gunnie, shakkan thir heid an sighan, aafil sad, an Brenna says, " on page 98

1 matches

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