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Use in varieties of Scots

weapon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 6.2 6 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences1812 4 0 2 0 0
Number of authors12 8 2 2

Occurrences of weapon 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
cos Ah hae got the secret weapon. on page 75

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Gie me yer weapon, A'll dae it masel. on page 83

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s. It wis their education. Ma weapon ae choice wisnae a rifle or a on page 91
d the bloke as if he's goat a weapon ae mass destruction stuffed i on page 124

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
'Put down the weapon, sir, the driver says. She's on page 176

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hin aff heids an limbs wi his weapon, gettin covert wi bluid an gu on page 20
am hand it ower as sic a fine weapon wis far ower good fer a commo on page 23

3 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
rsons unknown who grabbed his weapon and executed him wi it there
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he ceety o weemen is the only weapon we hae.” She paused an smil
1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
570306 I'll give ya blouse ya weapon! Yes I know how lassies get w (2022) twitter link
@clouise81 And ya got lost ya weapon! Ya coudnae watch the Sky Art (2022) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
sted she wid need some sort o weapon
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
erer’ hid moved ontae a new weapon o terror. It wiz aa speculati
hid been the silencer for the weapon. It wiz in size and shape lik
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a breath, so I used my secret weapon Fisherman’s Friends. A half
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, Christian Da Hegri, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
Willpooer dy weapon.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
de o' ash, tough and used fir weapon handles. Embla made o' elm, g(2020) search twitter

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