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Use in varieties of Scots

delve Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of delve in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ower frae Blackside later an delve it in for the auld man tae pl on page 25
'Juist you delve awa, Edam,' auld Tammas comfo on page 53

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
poetry. There's nae room tae delve intil it aa here, but John Wa on page 54

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hey will hae as they howk and delve and shovel till the whistle b on page 136

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
abune her syne tae double delve
1 matches

Doric

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ff_steven ony chunce you cuid delve intae yer fabled top poakit n(2015) search twitter