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Use in varieties of Scots

cocks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 4 3 9.9 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences148 2 1 1 2 0
Number of authors11 7 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of cocks in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ns me an waves back tae me an cocks his heid an winks his ee, tak on page 23

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
The wedder-cocks upby, ye hear thaim craik; on page 14

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
kind: walking sticks, weather cocks, ornate rocking chairs. Whit
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
l oot o’ its left lug, then cocks it’s heid, hinkin, afore co
He lucks et me, cocks his heid lik the big dug did,
2 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
He cocks his head back. I beg yir pudd
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Bogged doon wi’ ball-cocks,
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
arranged wi ane o the chicken-cocks tae cry him in the mornins a
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Tod’s Thoucht , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
hens or cocks. on page 79

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
hens or cocks. on page 19

1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
Whin cocks got aap tae crow. on page 41

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Everybody hedd twartree young cocks ta tak aff too, fae da laacht on page 15

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ah hear the cocks ir crawin,
an cocks craw in the mulberry trees.
2 matches

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