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Use in varieties of Scots

swerve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 0 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 0 3 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 2

Occurrences of swerve in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
my advice, body-swerve wauchle on forward afore he h on page 37

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Swerve it, on page 37

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
fy haurd tae gie him the body swerve. on page 28

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
y intae for decades. Cyclists swerve tae the opposite sides o the
1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
k ye were gi`in` me thi boady swerve,” yi shout, an gang ti gie
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
er video - but why did ye no swerve, slow doon, or stop when ye k(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
in a bleed, an atomic swerve, on page 29

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
whaen id comes tae the Hatimo Swerve. on page 86
tae the Museum and the Hatimo swerve. Oh no! Hatimo is askan fur h on page 87

2 matches

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