A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grease Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 3.2 11.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences136 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 6 6

Occurrences of grease 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

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Like Olivia Newton John in Grease on page 14

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
sna gum though. It wis candle grease. Y'ken I like a read in bed m on page 23

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
id throu a grainy sort o axle-grease state, that hauds for a meeni on page 72

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
t! Nor ony lang stands, elbae grease nor tartan pent naither!" on page 97

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Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
r o hoosehold soda saip ,elby grease an a muckle mangle. She wa af
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Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the nuclear grease monkey's refrain
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
lees Nae chippy suppers foo o grease Like human fowk on page 15

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uce, Minnie's da, wis clartin grease on the binder, fool orra brut
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Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
A wid be up tae ma oxters in grease and dirt. Ma freens thocht it
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Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hing happened an I thocht the grease I’d pitten in the suspensio
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Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
The grease seepin' through the paper bag

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
The grease seepin' through the paper bag
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@beast_afc tweeted
ve oot the wrappers, wipe the grease fae yer moo an start ower. Go(2020) search twitter

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