A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

swee Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 3.5 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences147 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors9 6 2

Occurrences of swee 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

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Reekin awa on the smeekin swee, on page 44

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
and ma airms an hauns birl an swee an circle in the air like an on page 21

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
k, but nae soond comes oot. I swee roon tae see whaur the witch on page 45

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
d, the kitchen lass swung the swee aff the fire an began tae lad on page 17

1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Whaur a pot on the swee wis hingin
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
n a muckle pot hingin fae the swee ower the fire afore poorin it
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Swee in the caller air
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
t. Ah'll tell dee what, ah'll swee him fur dee a Sunday, he sood on page 63
"Du's gyaain ta swee a sheep's heid!" he said, "in on page 64

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
r grice is hed his day. We'll swee him an cure him for Hallowmas on page 71

1 matches

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