A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mantlepiece Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of mantlepiece in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
Then . . . the nock on the mantlepiece chapped midnicht, and up whee on page 73

1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ye dinny need tae look it the mantlepiece whin yir kinnlin the fire(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
h'm admirin yer teapot on the mantlepiece. Ma Gran hed wan gey like it.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the lum, an the clock on the mantlepiece gaed clunkety clunk till it s
t the tick o the clock on the mantlepiece, an the pech o her faither's
2 matches

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