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Use in varieties of Scots

summers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4.5 0 19.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences139 0 2 1 1 0
Number of authors11 7 2 1 1

Occurrences of summers in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
endin oan the icey oan a hoat summers day. When a gaze at this sigh on page 50
er than a pavement oan a hoat summers day. And ma anxiety induced b on page 54
doesnae matter if it's a hoat summers day, or if the froast bite is on page 115

3 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
The summers efter the war wir long an hoa on page 76

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and observe between summers on page 12

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
doors hae been seen in thirty summers. on page 72

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
d the lassies’ name but yin summers day she remarked to Evans tha
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Summers seemed tae be warmer but mayb
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
only went up there a couple o summers ago, despite them bein on ma (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu'd seen some sixty summers and, perhaps, a couple more. on page 35

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Long summers playan bi the burn or the sho on page 42

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ie tae da Annexe. Hit wis mid-summers day 1962." on page 44

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
This summers gift, a bumper yield on page 8

1 matches

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