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china Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.8 21.3 12.8 19.9 11.6 32.8 0
Number of occurrences5540 8 2 2 3 0
Number of authors34 24 5 2 2 1

Occurrences of china in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ces wae him fir aw the tea in China: it's an awfy narra fireplace on page 38

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Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
handy. I can strecht awa tell China frae Arizona. Yon is gey usef on page 10
e sleep. Neist, the leeries o China an Siberia had their shot, an on page 58

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ill's place for aa the tea in China: this fireplace is gey nerra, on page 37

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mported a machine designed in China that could operate quicker an on page 22

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ht o a muckle great cake on a china ashet. 'The cake wis fou eich on page 118
forrit and grabbed the muckle china ashet whaur the cake hud been on page 125

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
is the maist o sic tat made? China, whaur the monied clesses o t on page 91
ae far-flung places, includin China, North America, Sou, America, on page 126
Israel, aw voted agin it. Yet China abstainit, India abstainit, a on page 129

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
'Hullaw, auld china!' he says, 'Hou're ye gettin on page 123

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ill be like the slow boat tae China. Ma number'll be up by the ti on page 111

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Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
auf as if presented in a bone china tea tassie or a warked horn s on page 18

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Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
"Haw, haud oan there, china," sez the moose tae wee G, on page 24

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Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
the boondary o the Emperor o China's byordinar porcelain palace; on page 94

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Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
e in whit's nou south-central China, sae ye'd mebbes owreset the on page 33

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
that haed its oreeginal oot o China. In the Roman impire fowk use
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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
lish speakin countries sic as China, multilingualism will growe m
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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
the place, the kitsch in the china cabinet an her colour telly w
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
are bag o’ yeast (priest); china (mate) reduced fae china plat
(mate) reduced fae china plate; tin flute (suit); Joe
don, includin plates of meat. China is shared wi London as weel b
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
he seiventies, A cudna veisit China acause o the soss an sotter o
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah hink o the poor folk in China. If we arenae careful, we’l
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
richt, but juist as a pairt o China.
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ur heid is gowpin’, oan the china phone you’re coupin’,
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
bet, cuttin the heidwatters o China’s mucklest rivers intae the
China abandoned a Han Chinese popul
dly through India an on intae China, than tae the lave o the deve
e. The wastren ex-provinces o China that had gotten thairsels flu
it wey wis hame. Easterly tae China alang the auld Silk Road wis
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Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ava are the likes o Americae, China an Brazil – mucke kintras,
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ce, while miscawin Roushie an China for daein the ae thing i “t
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Havery, Hannah The Gaithering, (Literature Alliance Scotland 2022) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
like china dugs in glass cabinets
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@Cobradile94 tweeted
Whit? A Sega Saturn in 80s China? #PS4share https://t.co/BiCNf(2019) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
Guid luck wi yir Great Wall o China fundraising treck be putting (2015) search twitter
onderin when you heid orf tae China fir yir treck? Sponsered toda(2015) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
In China their soup's made wi wee bird on page 15

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
three times afore turnin the china cup upside doon on a sasser. on page 37
l tay on the table: best bone china; funcies an ham sandwiches, a on page 78
lery, curting an even the aul china dirler aat he eesed te keep a on page 94

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
like hiz," she said, takkin a china cup an sasser oot o the cupbo on page 20

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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
scafe coffee. She drank fae a china mug nae een o yon horrible bi
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
inty’s twa geegaws, her twa china dugs.
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@McGoo1888 tweeted
@MadMentalTim My only china? Ye honestly think ah give a (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a scrum, a buull in a china shop, on page 3

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Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Peedie China man wae a fishing rod, green on page 47

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
id, wi a taeset fae Japan, da china dat thin at you cood see troo on page 71

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De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
as finest china, nearly see-trowe; on page 92

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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ang tradeition o musardrie in China lestin aboot twa an a hauf th on page 34

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Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
n twa thousan o them cam frae China. Thare wis a major exhibeitio on page 5

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Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
deition o splendid poetrie in China ower a period o mair nor twa
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