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Use in varieties of Scots

wires Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.3 6.5 6 79.5 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences2713 4 8 2 0 0
Number of authors20 8 4 6 2

Occurrences of wires in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A hink A've git ma wires crossed; the numbers arenae g on page 52

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Oh few that dinna cross their wires on page 59
Ower the owerheid wires across the wey on page 110

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
chin wi gears and pulleys and wires and a fantoosh computer syste on page 59

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
it, in coorse, but lippent on wires an cables in the grund or ala
st brek throu, tho lippent on wires an-aw, but syne, in the 1890â
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
in amang the stourie taigle o wires ahint the prenter tryin wi ba
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e, sorry aboot that. Croassed wires, it seems. Ah never goat the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ntil it finally lands oan the wires that hing between the street
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
dvert! There farcical taigelt wires wi Spanky's lines whan he's t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ntomime an ceilidh wi taigelt wires, puns, sangs, baurs an the au
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Tripping medical wires glistening
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ntraption that controlled the wires,
1 matches

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
in cotton wool and there’s wires stickin oot an tubes an pipes
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
d wiffies wi thir wiskers and wires warpin ganzies an shewin guss

@cligeey tweeted
@Val_Bold Get em on the phone wires(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
wid be a haep safer wi a twa wires strung aroond, tae keep the b on page 20

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
i'the wires o her craft. "Ye'll waant tae on page 9

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wupped up in wires, bae a field on page 9

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wae ivy-like wires, markers, switches, on page 10

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
wires clickan, clews on the floor on page 46
e oo is coorse cumman off the wires on page 103

2 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Click o steel wires, ends safe in her knitting be on page 47

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ye herd the peeng o the wires tightnan. on page 62

1 matches

Shetland

Hall, Nat nobody remembers the birdman - Hairst, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Shetland, poetry
staris gadder apö da wires... on page 82

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Dy wires flee faster as ony dis side on page 100

1 matches

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