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Use in varieties of Scots

slaves Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 5.1 6 9.9 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1810 4 1 2 1 0
Number of authors12 6 2 1 2 1

Occurrences of slaves in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tae banishment as plantation slaves in the West Indies.' John gie on page 31
twinty-aicht o thae barbarous slaves o Satan... may they roast for on page 52

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Whaur tobacco lairds wi slaves for ballast on page 45

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
some solt as slaves an gone on page 38

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
cendants o the Maroons; rebel slaves who fought a successful guerr
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
t there wis a trade in Uighur slaves for minin an road mendin. Usu
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Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
nment, torture, banishment as slaves in the Americas, loss o land

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
rangements tae sell us aff as slaves fur £12 a skull. Talk aboot
tain is paid fur the number o slaves on board a vessel an recompen

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
wur sent tae the Americas as slaves. Lanark certainly kent hoo ta

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
an wid hae been descentants o slaves. Ye can google that an-aa. El on page 57

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Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ally gowd, siller an waur – slaves. Fooiver, the Scaninavians we
e continent o Europe. Did the slaves (or the Norse gaan hame) tak
ones an it is possible at the slaves or migrant Scottish airtists
3 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
brutal future cops, slaves tae invisible on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
bet him, his fock wid be dir slaves, an if he lost, it wid be da on page 23

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Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
t ower clippit as dat wis hoo slaves kept dir hair.
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ere in these positions, being slaves?! ??(2020) search twitter