| pearls | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 6 | 20 | 13 |
| ORK - Orkney | 9.9 | 1 | 1 |
| SHD - Shetland | |||
| TON - Tonge | |||
| NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
| NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
| MNA - Mid Northern A | 16.3 | 5 | 3 |
| MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
| SNO - South Northern | |||
| ABN - Aberdeen | |||
| DOR - General Northern | 4.4 | 1 | 1 |
| NEC - North East Central | |||
| SEC - (South) East Central | 2.4 | 1 | 1 |
| WCE - West Central | 4.4 | 1 | 1 |
| DUN - Dundee | |||
| EDN - Edinburgh | |||
| GLA - Glasgow | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 11.8 | 9 | 5 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | |||
| SWE - South West (Galloway) | |||
| DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
| WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | |||
| CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) | |||
| BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) | |||
| SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) | |||
| BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast) | |||
| PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) | |||
| EUL - East Antrim (Larne) | |||
| GUL - General Ulster | |||
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) | 36.3 | 2 | 1 |
Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
h smile an touch the string o pearls it ma neck - Ah eesed te lik on page 44
1 matches
Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in o the history ahin the twa pearls o watter trimmlin at the lip
1 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
stouned an twa roon glimmrin pearls o watter wummled at the neuk
ers the gowdfish watched, the pearls o watter reamed ower an dreep
2 matches
Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
of watter dreeping doon like pearls on a lady's ballgoun. The win on page 3
1 matches
Swan, Michael Lallans 102 - Mebbi Ah Spak Owre Suin, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
kin o roustie, wi ane or twa pearls wantin, an the flair o heivin on page 96
1 matches
McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
rflee wings, and fower hunner pearls jist tae mak shair he's weel- on page 59
ety quirks? And thae braw wee pearls, shinin like the stars in mun on page 63
see a single threid. The only pearls he could feel were the pearls on page 64
4 matches
Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
als an decoratit wi strings o pearls, span oot, an oor skirts birl
ont Olympus. The bonnie white pearls lowsed fae ma hair an skited
2 matches