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lottery Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 4.8 9.6 19.9 11.6 0 35.4
Number of occurrences279 6 2 2 0 8
Number of authors15 8 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of lottery in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
da tae buy bread an milk an a lottery ticket aff the guy an take th on page 99

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ah'm no auld enough tae buy a lottery ticket. on page 50

1 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 58 - Newsins fa the SND, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
application til the Heritage Lottery Fund fur near £100,000 ower on page 110

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
0,000 grant frae the Heritage Lottery Fund alang wi a yearly £80,0
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
60s equeevalent o a National Lottery roll-ower) tae unfankle and r
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s haudin this week’s winnin lottery ticket.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
wifie next door we'd won the lottery and were flittin tae Barbados
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
p?’ He fans a wee folded-up lottery ticket in front ay his face
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
r mony o us, it's a post code lottery.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
zer then I pit oan in a ear's lottery." on page 12

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
'd named a great, lang list o lottery winners she'd teen up wi an s on page 37

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
y five pounds on the national lottery hinmaist nicht - fit shall a(2018) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Trying tae put on lottery bit nae pens, asks the boy at(2016) search twitter
king me tae play yon Postcode Lottery! Said I need a ma change fer (2017) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Phrases Puckle numbers fae e' lottery wid dae fine. Mine though. Fi(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
imistic flutter on the weekly Lottery. on page 39
eapskate won ten grand on the Lottery! on page 43

2 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ed. “Dat’s laek winnin da lottery!”
“Da lottery isna ower wi. Has du seen hoo
2 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
th commonities at dinnae tak' lottery fundin' tae forder UlsterScot on page 7
skeip daeins bes the National Lottery, bae baag lottery, Airts Coon on page 36
cudnae tak' lottery funds. Bit thon didnae turn o on page 37
roveesion gien tae ithers bae lottery fundin'. on page 39

8 matches

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