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Use in varieties of Scots

skins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 5.7 13.6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2211 9 1 0 0 1
Number of authors16 9 5 1 1

Occurrences of skins 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

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
30 saiconds an ye'll find the skins come aff easy. on page 69

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t wis the warmth o thae sheep skins that kep baith their bairn an on page 56

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
honkin humph o rotten chookie-skins. Boonce bowfs o goose-livers, on page 10

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Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The velvet olive skins o southren France, on page 98

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
land are playing out of their skins an if they can keep this up,
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an a coorse cloot gin aa oor skins haed a glent! For aa that, we
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™ he sais, gien me the three skins he’s swiftly stuck the gith
e sais, lickin the gum ay the skins an flippin it, slidin his fin
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
inishin returns since. ‘Any skins? Ah’ve goat a hauf dig.’
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an cauld, bit laden wi chiru skins, whase fine oo they cud sell.
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@pmcm1355 tweeted
lt oot Scotland tae save thur skins, the People o Scotland didnae (2022) twitter link

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
pits new wine intae aul wine-skins, cause gin he dis, e new wine on page 88

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ck struggled tae cast his ile skins (they were stickin tae his
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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
yowe's tint a lammie, faither skins the deid lammie's and ties it
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Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
weskit it wis, made wi mowdie skins. In ae pocket he keepit his b
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
s. The monkeys ruggit aff the skins wi their hairy hauns an drapp
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
n ma Art Monk shirt. Mon the 'skins. I mean...'fitba team(2021) search twitter

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
o diaphinous skins and fine sandy loam. on page 81

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Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
eskins. Fer ïf the' dae, tha skins wull brust, tha wine wull rin on page 9

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