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Use in varieties of Scots

virgin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 8 5.9 9.9 0 10.3 14.5
Number of occurrences2516 4 1 0 1 3
Number of authors16 10 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of virgin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
superiority cos A'm no a daft virgin n A dae on regular occasions. on page 6
Means yir no just a desperate virgin, usin them as a conquest n ob on page 41

2 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
frae a virgin (try findin' wan o' them in C on page

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
VIRGIN MARY on page 55
Sweet virgin Mary, the world can be scary, on page 56

4 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
y. She said, See so yir a big VIRGIN LIPS then. on page 73

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
o a Virgin Queen be then? on page 77

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
I crave o the sained and aye virgin Mary on page 97

3 matches

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Me still a virgin an’
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
es, I think you could win her virgin heart.”
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
A virgin voyage on tempest sea
1 matches

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Apparently, Virgin Money disnae hae branches, it(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
icht caa his maiden speech or virgin paper afore the Professer his on page 53

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Faar wa’s o’ virgin concrete ran
1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
nella. Her een looked lik the Virgin Mary’s maan hae looked fan
1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
compar't tae an oor or twa at Virgin Cinemas or a nicht at the the
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu says, "Are you a virgin, John? You've never tried you on page 10

1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The Path it winds wi' virgin snaw on page 15

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
"A virgin wull cairrie a wean, a sinn, on page 1
o Nazareth ïn Galilee, tae a virgin bi tha name o Mary that wus t on page 70

3 matches

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