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Use in varieties of Scots

swirl Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.7 0 9.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1613 0 1 1 0 1
Number of authors13 10 1 1 1

Occurrences of swirl in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
he face whit sauntit awa in a swirl o reek tae be replaced a meen on page 27

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Cock a lug tae the swirl o the kilts an the drums, on page 77

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
mmunal lavatory an watched it swirl roond an roond till it disapp on page 43

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
id Heehaw, gettin caught in a swirl, and birlin slowly roond thre on page 90
dded, as he got intae anither swirl, 'fae left tae richt, jist wh on page 91

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
strachlin quicken, whaur the swirl on page 75

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
strachlin quicken, whaur the swirl on page 58

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Swirl, dash, dash on page 58

2 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - St Anndra’s Day, 2008, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
wareness o the impendin ocean swirl
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, thousands ay dust particles swirl roon aboot him an some ay the
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
ke learning the taste o it. I swirl it and watch it move, how it
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
the pipes, and she hasna the swirl nor the skirl o the pipes, bu
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o her planet, than wi a canny swirl bleums on page 17

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
y Nories at Da Head! A sheeny swirl o 100s o nories- black, white(2013) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ichtit a newspaper, the first swirl o heat curlin the paper an st on page 10

1 matches

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