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Use in varieties of Scots

pen-knife Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of pen-knife in Corpus

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Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
es in them. Dad had brought a pen-knife as well. “Jist in case!”
eid een. It wis ma dad wi his pen-knife. Aboot tae kill me.
ight, I should have taken the pen-knife, but I couldnae think straigh
3 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
or ‘knifey’ wi the broken pen-knife ma big brither gied me, or, i
1 matches

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