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Use in varieties of Scots

sweepin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 4 6 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences158 4 0 1 0 2
Number of authors12 7 2 1 2

Occurrences of sweepin in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
d tae the Queen wha wis juist sweepin by, "My dear! I wish ye'd get on page 44

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he could hit him Aldo started sweepin the flair. Jist as the teache on page 192

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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an. McDade’s oot, swingin a sweepin brush aboot at a cunt an Joeâ
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
weet Caroline by Neil Diamond sweepin oer us as the door opens an s
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Wan last sweepin scan ae the othha side ae the
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Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
for trees tae block the lang, sweepin views they haud dear?
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n an auld lady cam towart him sweepin a path for hersel wi a muckle
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ff some o the haze, sae efter sweepin aroon the Chinese Hillside, A
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ny meenit noo, an the win wis sweepin the warld's muck aneth a fyte on page 29

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
omin in. She offered ti help; sweepin the fleer, washin dishes, ser on page 38

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Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
at i'fleer an I see it needs sweepin on page 158

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
et tae see if ye're daein the sweepin an dustin richt. If ye dinna on page 106

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
he telt me. “Dey believe in sweepin awa ill luck an makin wye for
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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nes. Hir ma's een scanned the sweepin staircases as draplets o whit on page 42

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Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Like woman sweepin oot her hoose, on page 23

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