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1,581 occurrences of fowk.

271 documents matching criteria (20.59% of corpus)

1,061,270 total words in matching documents (23.13% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 1 0.67

... auld electric horn aff a motor bike, the kinna thing some fowk wad cry a klaxon, an he thocht that if he cuid juist git ...

Craiters: 03 - Stirries Fenton, Alexander 1,596 1 0.63

... an hyowt neeps, an aa e little crafties on e Hill an e fowk at bade in em. An files I’d see little for blin smore ...

Craiters: 04 - E Backlins Calfie Fenton, Alexander 1,628 1 0.61

... room, faar e sleepit wi ma twa brithers. Fit wye I’d got fowk invaigled intae lettin’s hae a room tae masel, I dinna ...

The Storie o Caermoulis Purves, David 1,779 1 0.56

... veisit hir. He wes a wee thing pit out whan he saw aw the fowk in the houss, but whan th supper we set, he wes rael joco ...

Scots Tung Wittins 71 Fairnie, Robert 1,807 1 0.55

... thae shops wis gien copies o the follaein poster tae draw fowk's tent tae the cairds. [NOTE: image here of a poster ...

The Draiglin Hogney Purves, David 1,841 1 0.54

... his huntin horn an gied a loud blaw on it, for ti lat the fowk inby the castel ken he wes at the dure. Aw at aince, the ...

Craiters: 05 - 'Dirty Beast' Fenton, Alexander 1,953 1 0.51

... roddens Ere wisna mony nyeuks o’t I didna ken. Ere’d been fowk aboot e place lang seen for ere wis a steen cairn I howkit ...

A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 1 0.51

... is way; fit is what; pooers abeen are the powers above; fowk are folk; dee is do; faa is who; A wis is I was; bit is ...

The Ill-Gien Guidmither Purves, David 2,005 1 0.50

... an he didna want oniebodie ti ken whaur he belanged. Sum fowk said he wes Malcolm, brither ti Fingal, Keing o Morven, an ...

Craiters: 06 - E Hens Riv Fenton, Alexander 2,225 1 0.45

... wis near ay left open for e hens tae rin oot an in, an for fowk tae gang in tae gaither e eggs, maist o em in nests bit e ...

Scots Tung Wittins 139 Fairnie, Robert 2,375 1 0.42

... gentle Book like me Endure sic scoundrel Company? What may fowk say to see me cling Sae close to this auld ugly thing; But ...

Scots Tung Wittins 129 Fairnie, Robert 2,468 1 0.41

... if he's no yin o oo he'll hae nae kennin o the words ither fowk uises. Breton Poindin Thrawn oot o Coort OWER in Brittany, ...

Letter from an Island in the Middle of an Unknown Sea Rimbaud, Dee 2,534 1 0.39

... ma dearie dear, an a wonder if it’s such a sin, wi no fowk tae see. It is no a big island, aboot forty or fifty acres ...

Scots Tung Wittins 50 Fairnie, Robert 2,638 1 0.38

... wisna sweir tae gaun on strike an, wi maist o thair weemin-fowk wirkin in the mills, thai cuid afford tae bide oot a guid ...

Daft Jackie McGonigal, James 2,850 1 0.35

... his troosers oot for him tae cam hame in.' That's three fowk dafter than the Dungarrochs, thocht Wullie tae hissel. I ...

Thomas Edward o Banff de Rusett, Wendy 2,896 1 0.35

... North tae Aiberdeen, their mither’s toon, faur she hid fowk that kent her. The bairns grew, an wee Thomas was pitten ...

Hou Finn Fand Bran Purves, David 3,251 1 0.31

... gret wes the delyte o the Keing an his Queen an aw the fowk in the Kinrik. The Keing wes that weill pleised, he said ...

Craiters: 11 - E Widdie Fenton, Alexander 3,526 1 0.28

... bit noo cam e skweel an I fun oot ere wis an aafa lot mair fowk aboot e place’n masel. Aa e same, I made a graan start. A ...

Habetrot the Spinstress Purves, David 3,608 1 0.28

... an said, gae nippitlyke: “Ah’l pit up wi this nae mair. Fowk wul say it’s ma blame nae man ever cums seekin ye/ Ah ...

The Fower Quarters: 18 - Three Little Words Blackhall, Sheena 4,385 1 0.23

... cup. "I've often wondered that masel. Hate often binds fowk thegither as ticht as love, whyles tichter!" Her visitor ...

The Way Forward for the Scots Language Purves, David 11,636 1 0.09

... he's duin wrang, an dinna cuist it up tae him ... Mind the fowk he's helpit ... the weemen an bairnies ... an gie him a ...


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