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market Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.2 14.9 30.1 9.9 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences5229 20 1 0 1 1
Number of authors32 16 13 1 1 1

Occurrences of market in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Ae fellie went tae the market yin day on page 20

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n wi a herd o nowt for Lanark market. He's an Argyll man himsel, b on page 72

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
a decent price fur it at the market, whiles if they're the last b on page 23

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
O oor sexual market forces: on page 34

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
walls. Where there's some up market lookin paintings pinned oan t on page 136
ah telt her "It's a seller's market". If the Prime Minister and h on page 143
ryhing aboot this place is up market. It reeks ae toff success and on page 172

3 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The market's Saatchi rated. on page 102

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e fakes yi get up the Paddy's market. Ah said, Whit yi implyin. We on page 77

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Sent back hame by market forces on page 88

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
y. Then on tae "I went to the market and I bought an apple". When on page 120

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
Cantsmell’s ma in the super market the day. Ah nearly faintet tr
r since that day in the super market ah keep seein her an she alwa
2 matches

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
UK government’s ‘Internal Market Bill’, that’s gaun throu
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
side Joe’s Café in Selkirk Market Place wi Cathy Cockburn. A la
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
te supply, it’s inevitable. Market forces. That’s whit these c
ays oan aboot int it? Let the market decide? Well it will, ah’m
well-heeled charlie bandits? Market forces, man.
uct at the right price an the market comes tae you. Like moths tae
full place is hoachin wae it. Market forces man.
8 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
wis nae langer the ‘target market’ as ye micht say. Or as And
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e clothes for you at the flea market and given them a wash. I hope
. Malik, are you still at the market?”
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
like ah’m always sayin – market forces, man. The market will
forces, man. The market will decide.
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@Chazzbat tweeted
ived a package fae the Oxford Market Research Agency addressed tae(2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
"Here's a market, are ye hungry dad" on page 15

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Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
manage tae get landit en eih market fitiver. Aik an Aleckie turnt on page 20
ded wer catche's en thi Broch Market. Noo eence abudy wis saifly a on page 52
ddim, intae Peterheed tae thi market, at offen eest tae amyoose fo on page 60
eit a weis eit thi baak o thi market, fyle laanen feish, a hid tae on page 68

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fer bets, like, jist tull the market stairts leukin up." on page 37

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
I gaed hame. I suppose i'm up market fae you Jonsar you
much he hid selt an, foo the market wis in ither
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Jude an Cammy's trade in the market tuik a sair dunt – till fow
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Mintlaw. They’d been at the Market and hid a twa’r three drams
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
window shopping the property market atthe minute - this chicken

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
o’ yer kidneys on the black market. But last Saturday a local co
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Kong in the Aiberdeen indoor market - ging try, richt fine! #lun(2019) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
n i wint duncin in i Metro on Market Street. Hye Aye!(2020) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
div ye think we can be in the market for a prolific scorer playing (2022) twitter link
nefish100 Bumped intae Joe on Market Stree afore a Dons match a co (2021) twitter link
actly fit we should be in the market for, nae guarantees but let’ (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@muddy_40 Black Market min(2020) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
they started the portable saw market.(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
his is whar manufacture meets market. And anither pressure point m
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae the market, three shilling bought on page 44

1 matches

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
gravy man at the Continental Market this year. But did find a Sco(2019) search twitter