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Use in varieties of Scots

missiles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of missiles in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ke a bazooka oot it. Tae fire missiles. I didnae ken whit it wis. No on page 1

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nae bombs nor missiles bleeze the strand alicht, nor on page 77

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
hae ugsome Polaris an Trident missiles, made Scotland uissfae, but i on page 110

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ion when the crowd are lobbin missiles at them?(2020) search twitter

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Like missiles they dive tae the sea on page 5

1 matches

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