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Use in varieties of Scots

skeleton Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences106 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 5 3 1

Occurrences of skeleton in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s little better than a walkin skeleton, tho they were glad o that be on page 97

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
a that looks like a hauf-deid skeleton. Jist there. See him?' on page 66

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
an hur skeleton's stertan tae schaa on page 59

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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
pyin the jaggy shape o a fish skeleton. Daedalus had gane gyte wi je
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
is. Stingin their dials, yet, skeleton drunks in impractical, ill-fi
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@LairnScots tweeted
Watch @GerdaStevenson8's 'Skeleton Wumman', an eldritch story ab (2020) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
museum built tae resemmle the skeleton o a whale that is the biggest on page 3

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
chal College Tooer an stack a skeleton on the tapmaist pynt. That wi
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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
eens an nae mair; fit we ca a skeleton in English. A fun the wird in
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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
skeleton o roost - on page 36

1 matches

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