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Use in varieties of Scots

verbal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.9 12.1 1.5 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences2924 1 0 4 0 0
Number of authors15 13 1 1

Occurrences of verbal in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
icked me up this morning, the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from yo on page 33
d argie that the phrase, 'the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from yo on page 34
be Scots, jist as the wirds, verbal, hyperbole an ejaculating are on page 36

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Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ed. It hed tae be cut wi some verbal knife. Murray didna like tae on page 87

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
nd(e), which contrasts wi the verbal noun - ing(e) inflection. Thi on page 17
fact a verbal noun: the first day of compei on page 18

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
has chynged tae the skaith o verbal
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
age that isna uised for baith verbal an written communication cann
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Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
A verbal daud
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ergerac is a racket display o verbal shenanigans, but again it’s
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
he ither haund got nae want o verbal abuse frae individuals baith
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Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the best ah kin hope fur as a verbal exchange. The sad thing is, h
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
leavin McDade tae suffer the verbal onslaught he’s ill-equipped
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
maik o Hansard) didna gie ony verbal inpit frae ony o the eicht Sc
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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
Kempin wi Dante in a verbal speil,
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Braw verbal pictures he could paint.
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
er utterances becomes a kin o verbal Rubik cube.
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
negatit verbal endins in ‘-ae’, sic as o
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eam, an forbye giein his lugs verbal pelters tae mak him see sense(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wi Vi, fin the soun o Sandy's verbal explosion fullt the room: on page 31

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
n da waik/unstressed form fir verbal prefixes an waik prepositions on page 31
Verbal negator: Da action is quet on page 44
a negator is da morphological verbal suffix - on page 88
tences. Wi auxiliary verbs da verbal suffix - na on page 89

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