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cancer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.9 14.9 19.2 0 5.8 0 8.8
Number of occurrences4328 12 0 1 0 2
Number of authors20 13 4 1 2

Occurrences of cancer 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

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
yer loss, a bloody thing, the cancer, a richt shame. Folk had forg on page 79

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e tots up Parkheid Road's got cancer. That's a shame, that. Jist a on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tch ma dad slip awey wae lung cancer. And then ah hud tae sit and on page 90

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
aboot this basturd thi call cancer. on page 89

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Racism, Fascism, Cancer, disease, on page 36

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
logs, Ah heard she's got lung cancer, and it's no lookin good,' on page 79

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An whan daith-dalin cancer staw on page 15

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
ovey-somethin - some kinnae cancer, ken? It wis a bit o a bugger on page 136

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
heard they're like tae gie ye cancer.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
includes a bigger risk o lung cancer, hert disease an a sindry var
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
aboot much. His granny an the cancer an that must be takin its tol
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Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y’s no farin well. Her lung cancer’s re-emerged efter her gett
‘The cancer has spread at an aggressive r
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
became convinced he hud lung cancer. He became that terrified at
‘’Well, things like Bowel cancer’’ he says, cooly as yae l
sel when he muttered ‘Bowel Cancer’. He said they words as if
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
d memories ae his battles wae cancer wur plaguin ma mind. And so w
symptoms ae advanced ‘Bowel Cancer’. Ah sat doon oan the toile
the ominous words ae ‘Bowel Cancer’ intae the search engine. A
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ub oaff the symptoms ae bowel cancer that huv left a permanent mar
efter receivin a diagnosis ae cancer. Then aw ae a sudden an unant
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
se. Ah’ve goat fuckin bowel cancer. A silent killer’’ ah inf
the fuck dae yae mean, bowel cancer?’’ he gushes, flabbergast
irection ‘’He’s no goat cancer’’
’You telt him you’ve goat cancer?’’ asks a shocked Dougie.
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@Chazzbat tweeted
is is appallin. Sufferin frae cancer fer years an bein telt it's a(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
it and wis telt he had bowel cancer. Operation went well though a(2020) search twitter

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
n wee blythe warld. Until the cancer had come, chewin her aw up an on page 77

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Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
time as a PSA and a childhood cancer.
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Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
is an outcry on social media. Cancer Research UK haed juist releas
ead: “Obesity is a cause of cancer.” Ae quine wisna too impres
statistic intae perspective, Cancer Research UK maks it pretty cl
ty can cause thirteen types o cancer aathegither, sic as kindey ca
aathegither, sic as kindey cancer, breist cancer, intestine can
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@Franwella tweeted
Cancer.......it's a pain in th tit r(2011) search twitter

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
e you. You loss your bearins. Cancer. Weel hit's da wird you faer
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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nae know that she was sick wi cancer. Sae she drummed on lik a mai on page 1

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Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Ither trouble (tha like o cancer, diabetes or hairt seekness)
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