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holyrood Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.4 19.5 7.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences4638 5 1 1 1 0
Number of authors25 19 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of holyrood in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Holyrood, Mon's Meg, Glamis an Cawdor, on page 77

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ere afore the settin up o the Holyrood Pairliament. Loads o wark the on page 18
d Dewar as First Meenister at Holyrood, redrew the maritime boondary on page 24
e see the relationship atween Holyrood an the 'financial sector' war on page 89
wi the Royal Garden Party at Holyrood, tho the ae-lane Royalist A c on page 105
British Empire? Forbye that, Holyrood disnae hae aw the pouers nece on page 146
Also on pages 154
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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wi the 'hole in the groun' at Holyrood, on page 42
Or thon new place, cried 'Holyrood'? on page 93
me southers aa, we're back in Holyrood, on page 152

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The Yowes o Holyrood on page 36

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Edinburgh, afore the Palace o Holyrood, nicht o Februarie 9 - Febru on page 14
an Holyrood the palace here. on page 15

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Behint him in Holyrood on page 50

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ae signs athin the new £350m Holyrood biggin shawn in Scots as weel
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Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
l a Britain, Great or no. But Holyrood, tae me, is aw aboot leukin f
ker in a thrave. Likeweys, at Holyrood, the Lallans an the Doric are
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Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
tives tae tak on the cause in Holyrood.
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Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
l somebody at Westmínster or Holyrood stairts haudin oor feet tae t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
biggin at Holyrood. It wis daured a richtfu plac
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
astle doun The Royal Mile tae Holyrood Park.
see Arthurs Seat risin oot o Holyrood Park, the sides o the weel-ke
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
checkoot lassies and refugees Holyrood’s Saicont Chamber, and watc
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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
a strang Green performance at Holyrood nixt year. Ye can follae Gabr
e effecks it micht hae on the Holyrood elections.
t cause an unexpeckit upset i Holyrood nixt year. Sae muckle o the p
s a lang wey aff noo, but gin Holyrood’s constituency vote gaes th
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McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
SNP in Mey, an syne a radical Holyrood nixt year – SNP, Green, SSP
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McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
for the poll whan it cam tae Holyrood, but syne that election is sa
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
t waur fir Scottish Labour at Holyrood, they hae. Jim Murphy’s rec
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
d abdy in thrall it Tuesday's Holyrood Gairden Perty!Yi micht be fir
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@jax6754 tweeted
said here is some o my art o Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland. I (2017) search twitter

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Message to SNP. The Holyrood cockpit is not just where we (2022) twitter link
thian, but still sneaked into Holyrood by the back door using a Unio (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ia up and doon the chamber at Holyrood(2020) search twitter
amesKelly Ae ilk Wednesday at Holyrood. It is cad FMQ(2020) search twitter

@pmcm1355 tweeted
on @RoddyQC @murdo_fraser The Holyrood Parliament thit hus a minorit (2022) twitter link

@Sinethugcat tweeted
amsay @NicolaSturgeon Current Holyrood inquiry is into the failures (2021) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an Punishment Depairtment at Holyrood – Dr Bandara's age-reversal
since Pat Duguid tuik ower at Holyrood. Polis frae America an Russia
rd wi the Hoosin Unit doon at Holyrood. They're greeable tae cheenge
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@72redz1903 tweeted
is that both Westminster and Holyrood failed tae fully lockdoon and (2021) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
I'd like to hear the view fae Holyrood. http://t.co/IXKfmpbsXq #scot(2013) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
mchapel as tae Kelvingrove an Holyrood. This, alang wi a shift in ed
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Da new Scottish Parliament, Holyrood on page 48

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Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Farewell tae Holyrood and power on page 16

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