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Use in varieties of Scots

valentine's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.1 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences86 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of valentine's in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
It's Valentine's Day, an the postman has been, on page 109
her, Why wid Iain send you a Valentine's carg Cause he's a big poof th on page 110
tae buy a dozen red roses fur Valentine's Day but he said he'd need tae on page 111

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ic side tae it kinna like St. Valentine's day sae the freebie paper uis
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
It's Valentine's Day themorra! Compare Carol A (2018) twitter link
en whit a 'poor-oot' is? This Valentine's Day, research traditional Sco (2018) twitter link

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Group Love Poem for Valentine's Day on page 123

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@Lagganeer Japers! It's no Valentine's tae the morra! Tak a keek tho (2015) twitter link