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garage Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.4 11.7 28.8 29.8 29.1 54.7 4.4
Number of occurrences5422 18 3 5 5 1
Number of authors28 10 10 2 3 2 1

Occurrences of garage in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
JULIE: Garage. on page 1

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
r his bowfin second-haund car garage, Matilda jinked intae the lob on page 24
k again. Mibbe his day at the garage hud been mince, and he hadnae on page 32
rand siller-makkin day at the garage! Ah've got a few wee crackers on page 54
! Ah cannae gang doon tae the garage and sell motors like this! Ho on page 57

6 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ould go aw the way tae the BP Garage wi a note fur fags an bread a on page 81

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
eam coaches an the Jag in the garage o his braw big hoose. No tae on page 65

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ve fae below the quarter open garage door. Ah pull it open tae a s
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Garage Doors
[NOTE: image of the garage doors with painted saltire in
n the Honest Toun beilds this garage door frae the wather. Is thon
come hame tae? Daes ony ither garage door mak sic a guid statement
4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
lego structure.. Think it's a garage?.. Hope yer day gets better M (2022) twitter link

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
a cheeky rose plantit in the garage. Am pacin masel tho, coz itÂ’(2020) search twitter
wee buckshee stowaways in the garage. Nae idea how ah missed thum (2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
Wannae help me clean oot the garage gorgeous? Coffee an chocolate (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y ian and kevin - top dollar garage m8 - happy tae give the lads (2020) twitter link
ys n drove the car in tae the garage - ffs it wis priceless lol (2020) twitter link
@Neillyf88 garage across fae me in elphinstone (2020) twitter link
landFA if the bars open in ur garage al pop along m8 lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t, eence ye've tidied oot yer garage an yer laft, life seems rale on page 85

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n Ah'm up te ma een. Ess is a garage, ye ken, nae a bliddy taxi se on page 52

1 matches

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Hoose, hip-hop garage or gweed aul rock an roll. on page 13

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
His quine wiz in the garage on page 172

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
speirt at her gin there wis a garage thereaboots an could Ah maybe on page 104

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
lang past, an he hid a Timpo garage set, wi petrol pumps an cars
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ere wis the basket abeen the garage door so he cood
doon tae the garage, tae see the mechanic tae see
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
cosy garage. Warm an snod they fell soun
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
yone ken i' a latchie opening garage fit sells floeers! https://t.(2017) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ordon wye. His da wirked in I garage. So yi can imagine I state o (2019) search twitter
tin on yon turbo trainer in i garage. Been geein a blast ivvry noo(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Picked van up fae garage nae even a gee going in that (2020) search twitter
ye he wis chasing mi roon the garage(2020) search twitter
ie ither side o Ythan aye the garage is a hoose noo(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
her place & reversed into the garage first time I thought to mysel(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So I phoned up the nearest garage - they wid send someen doon on page 41

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
swallows are back...open the garage door' on page 65

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
an beelt it up tae da thrivin garage he haes da day. An Sylvia fan on page 11
he can pit a new sign ipo da garage, sayin John Thomson and Sons. on page 12
ta New Zealand, an he bocht a garage in Christchurch wi da money h on page 46

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
is checkin da oothoose an da garage.'
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Phoned da garage yisterday ta git snow tyres, (2021) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ei drove the car intil it’s garage an
e the stick hoose, anenst the garage, an is shei
retoured back past the garage door, wi hir airms fou o eldi
the garage, “Whit tyme is’t, kis Aâ€
4 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
e You like floors oot safeway garage kirst. #sillyjamie(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
's contents poured aintae the garage flure. on page 10

1 matches

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