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Use in varieties of Scots

slaughter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 2.6 0 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences85 0 1 1 1 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of slaughter in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst daith and slaughter reigned oan Flanders Fields, on page 20

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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ts Pairlament as ‘sickening slaughter’ an the First Mínister sha
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McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
hot. They were aided in their slaughter by oor ranks bein’ compress
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@Chazzbat tweeted
veal, but mair than happy tae slaughter lambs by the hunners. Probabl(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
is Get wi Americano or we'll slaughter ye" (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu wisna gaan tae slaughter me. Relief near meed me seek. on page 40

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
as lambs wid tae a uncan slaughter, on page 62

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Southern

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
hev seen the evidence o' the slaughter of a whole generation of folk
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