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Use in varieties of Scots

sowls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 10.3 3 19.9 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2920 2 2 4 0 1
Number of authors14 6 2 2 3 1

Occurrences of sowls in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
owpit ower. Aw thae banes and sowls ablow the gress, and the gres on page 16

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
see. The war that monie guid sowls thare! Tell me, what-wey wes on page 46

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Puir sowls, they're wechted wi despair on page 49

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
, droukit, an disjaskit, some sowls were faur frae hame - want h on page 27
vels, John had witnessed pui, sowls' biggins brunt tae the grun, on page 34
side, an did the same. Baith sowls unbekent, thinkin the same du on page 44
n can dae tor thae puir brave sowls martyred for oor Kirk? on page 53
their mortal cley, may their sowls forever rest wi Thee in Thy E on page 54
Also on pages 57, 61, 74, 81
13 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
in, Cerberus wid poison their sowls wi his snakes, crush them wi on page 51
ken whit wid happen tae their sowls if they ever tried tae get oo on page 53

2 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
sodgers, yir sowls, ay, are heroes ayont the gra on page 31
The Sainin o Sowls on page 32

2 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
lost, forfochen, hauden-doon sowls. O 'Rescue the perishing, car on page 32

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
like imsel: peer an tortured sowls, bound te the Earth bi the si on page 77

1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Aye Lass, for the sowls o the folk that pat me in thi on page 22

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
But their sowls aer resilient, on page 25

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
wander like lost sowls. I need an ootfield, on page 20

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ent an wi his speerit in your sowls, be open-haerted an open-haan on page 167

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Pör sowls, lyin ootadaeks on page 68

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
at cared aboot da sowls o Pictish fisherfock.
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
t, an yis'II fin rest fer yer sowls. ° Fer ma yauk ïs aisie, an on page 9

1 matches

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