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Use in varieties of Scots

flights Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 3.6 6 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences137 4 1 0 1 0
Number of authors11 7 2 1 1

Occurrences of flights in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ail at each turn, jumping the flights like a teenager. Once, someon on page 14

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ly ah throw him doon a couple flights ae stairs. And straight awey on page 146

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
essary for long and sustained flights." But as can be seen frae thi on page 69

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
dom cause Ryanair wur floggin flights fir a fiver plus fees. The ba
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lcony. She wad rin up the twa flights o concrete stairs, luggage an
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@jax6754 tweeted
wish! A wis even checkin oot flights & trains fae Scotland, but to(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ve_ easyjet ffs - downmarket flights - what do u expect lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
tae the airport then changed flights a couple o times. Bit a thoch
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@daleser23 tweeted
d on monday. Had to change ma flights(2013) search twitter
ma dad n telt um tae look at flights for next week. #fuckinshit(2013) search twitter
l be good games. Awa tae book flights(2014) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
flights o linoleum-clad spiral stairc on page 7

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Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
at 6-4. @greg_colin puled the flights on ti help the team oot unlik(2012) search twitter