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Use in varieties of Scots

fishy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.1 2.5 11.8 0 17.4 0 4.8
Number of occurrences175 8 0 3 0 1
Number of authors12 5 5 1 1

Occurrences of fishy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
t. An she wis bowfin. Soor an fishy, as if she hud missed her Sun on page 11

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
ack. It's fuckin rotten. Pure fishy smellin. Efter a few dry boak on page 3

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h'm awright aboot it, an even Fishy McNish who ah cannae staun of on page 169

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A Fishy Tale
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
gie tae pipe doon an keep his fishy fingers in his pooch.
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
A FISHY STORY on page 15

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
afore tacklin a queer-leukin fishy thing at wis floatin aboot in on page 18

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ma' baws lest time, t'was gie fishy!(2016) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
og Thocht there wis something fishy(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@FinHall Sounds affa fishy tae me ??(2017) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Da Fishy-faced Flunkey began bi takkin on page 56
hin shö scuttit oot ageen da Fishy-faced Flunkey wis geen, an da on page 57
o far we geng, boy?" said his fishy freend. on page 102

3 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
A fishy dream on page 25

1 matches

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