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Use in varieties of Scots

gravity Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 11.8 4.5 49.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences3123 3 5 0 0 0
Number of authors10 6 2 2

Occurrences of gravity in Corpus

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Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Newton's Law of Gravity on page 143

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Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Gravity's somethin that nae wan can a on page 33

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
y sizes claucht in its wechty gravity. Forder oot fae Jubiter is Se
r the comets bides. The sun's gravity dwynes thareawa an syne we ga
aes hae a magnetic field. The gravity is jist ower a third o the Yi
amang the cloods. The actual gravity o Venus is aboot 90% o the Yi
the sun. It haes ane-saxt the gravity o the Yird an this is whit we
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ge; black holes wae their ain gravity pullin at me, an he stares ri
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
spersed wae loose escarpment. Gravity aids ma descent an each leapi
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
forward, keepin his centre ay gravity low, graspin at weeds an expo
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
As the centre o gravity shifts eastwards an the numme
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
cam’ awa’ in his haun’, gravity accelerated the descendin’
in this battle the favourite, Gravity (Isaac bluidy Newton’s goat
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bastarn dug bears its teeth, gravity pullin at its slebbers, formi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tters ower time, the centre o gravity o Scots speakers micht creep
1 matches

Doric

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
space, gravity an bosons, hadrons, baryons, on page 82

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
i flaaless skin, lang legs an gravity defyin breests stared up fae on page 81

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Aye, bit still... gravity jist disna affeck men in the on page 69

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the sensory-seutid low-gravity raves apae Olympus Mons, cuit on page 82
o Astrid's silence haes aafil gravity, an so the conversaetion is f on page 84
ody at's mibbe growan anither gravity. Tae bide, an hopp sheu's cha on page 104

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Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Gear, Grory, Gravity, Gumpick, Grid on page 11

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Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
aert o her silence haes aafil gravity,
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