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houses Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 9.6 6.4 0 0 32.8 0
Number of occurrences2518 4 0 0 3 0
Number of authors14 10 3 1

Occurrences of houses in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an quartered thaim in the big houses o suspected covenanter lairds on page 33
watch helpless as their grand houses were fyled an pillaged, an pr on page 34
us an hame, afore ripin their houses o cutlery, plates, claes an v on page 58

3 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ght out. And not for cleaning houses." on page 84

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
get faimlies pit oot o their houses and pit lads in the jile, an on page 83
avie was toastit as a hero in houses an taverns, an this micht hae on page 84
wk began tae come oot o their houses an it wis pretty obvious tae on page 96
spate o burglaries in the big houses o the West End, an a week or on page 104

5 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ly up fur sale are ex-council houses. on page 30

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
bours wi externally identical houses. Ah cid bore ye wi aw the fan
It wiz just outside their houses, in their barely fence-separa
2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
the beholders run into their Houses, for fear the Fire have devou
they were fain to watch their Houses and Cornyards Continually, fo
2 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
r people wi Alzheimer’s, it houses fourteen others an now Evelyn
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n to leave it so close to the houses ...”
1 matches

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ture too Bessie. One day, all houses will have new inventions like
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
u want people to sit in there houses for the next month likes - h (2020) twitter link

Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
The houses ir round about and the shops on page 111
O thae houses on page 123

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n spades, then a row o lodgin houses, an behind them a railway sta on page 20

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
For they’re aye cooped up in houses when the yellow’s on the bro (2020) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r wur saivrel ootbye herd’s houses on the ferm, twae it laest, i
inning faimlie wur i the twae houses it the Auld Toun: A’ve vivi
whit A read thar wur aboot 25 houses i Deanburnhaugh, i the
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