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Use in varieties of Scots

sorrows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3 1.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences106 1 1 1 1 0
Number of authors9 5 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of sorrows in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
wid feel wae aw their simple sorrows, an fun pleasure in aw their on page 123

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Is it drownin yer sorrows in drink? on page 18

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
and she rarely said she'd hur sorrows tae seek wi any wean but me. on page 9
. He wis too busy drownin his sorrows fur aw ah prayed fur God tae on page 50

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Leave her here ti belloch her sorrows. on page 35

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
re Raphaelite paintin, Man of Sorrows, that hings in the National G
1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
wid feel wi all their simple sorrows, an find a pleasure in all th on page 121

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And, tae blot oot aal his sorrows, he resorted tae the drink. on page 51

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
Mind on she has sorrows to come, hid said, so he clap on page 20

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
would feel wi aw their simple sorrows, an finnd a pleasure in aw th on page 124

1 matches

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