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Use in varieties of Scots

willow Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 3 6 39.7 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences166 4 4 2 0 0
Number of authors11 3 4 2 2

Occurrences of willow in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
sionally takin shelter in its willow tree - the perfect giant ten on page 39

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
eans "the river meadow wi the willow trees" frae "sauch" the Scots
ae "sauch" the Scots word fer willow. An Saughtonhall comes frae t
2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
ot aa day wiring in tae young willow, aspen and cottonweed. This w
rs like tae redd up the young willow tae hae tae their supper. Afo
or fish, while the now robust willow stands provide habitat for so
3 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Fae Strip the Willow tae the Lancers He kent foo t on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tap wis a fork wi a boorach o willow boughs that fowk caad the thu
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 Willow ate it??! Jist thru Perth x(2011) search twitter

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
ot tae be an Orkney Strip the Willow ??(2021) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - A Spell o Good Wather, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Strip the willow will do the trick, on page 31

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
we sailed through 'Strip the Willow', I heard a nesty 'rip' on page 4
nd then - ah'll be thin as a willow - on page 19

2 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Strip the willow will do the trick on page 157

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
hit. A willow basket shaepit tae a back, on page 31

1 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
wis aside Ciaran Hogan, Irish Willow basket makker.(2019) search twitter

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