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Use in varieties of Scots

skate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 1 1.5 19.9 5.8 10.3 17.7
Number of occurrences112 1 2 1 1 4
Number of authors8 2 1 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of skate in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
osts aroon Renfrew, an on the skate board ramp in the Robbie Park on page 131

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
trust scotland, the daft auld skate, on page 5

1 matches

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Bit I love halibut an skate. on page 98

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Whit a blether skate thoo are. on page 6

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
Lerwick chippy again efter a Skate supper there in 2008 gied me (2020) search twitter

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a skate's purse tight as a nut, but f on page 21

1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
i winter wonderland and hev a skate aboot.gud fun #hohoho(2012) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
he saed, ‘but ah'm goin tae skate doon the brae. Save the rest
Skate doon the brae, ah thocht. Jen
brae, ah thocht. Jenny cannae skate doon the brae, ah thocht. The
Grove, but yince ah seen her skate doon Greenland Crescent, an s
4 matches

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