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Use in varieties of Scots

pledge Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.7 6 3 0 0 0 14.5
Number of occurrences1912 2 0 0 0 3
Number of authors12 8 1 2

Occurrences of pledge in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
ut ye hinna redeemed yer last pledge! Yer month wis up the day afo on page 138

1 matches

Bleiman, David Lallans 104 - Ae Fond Kush, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Ah pledge, Rose, till the Clyde gangs d on page 36
Ma pledge tae convert's noo revised, ma on page 37

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
e or hooses bi wey o a wad or pledge in pairt peyment for a lend o on page 52

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Labour haes gien a specific pledge in its manifesto tae legislat
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
oot o 129) alang wi a pairty pledge tae haud a referendum on a fr
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
iberal policies fan their ain pledge is tae socialism? It micht we
. Wi this in mind, Murphy’s pledge micht turn oot tae be a tuim
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
might as well hae said "I'll pledge free air and free rain for al(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
might as well hae said "I'll pledge free air and free rain for al(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
) the Deil gart aa his pupils pledge their immortal sowel in exche
ack himsel frae the grave tae pledge that she'd ay hae thon, fariv
2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ave man that he was, teuk the pledge alang wi aal the sailors drin on page 23

2 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
An' tak' the pledge right noo. on page 14

1 matches

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