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protests Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 7.2 1.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences1714 1 0 0 1 1
Number of authors11 8 1 1 1

Occurrences of protests in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
een could see intae hers. The protests fae the twa cells silenced. . on page 1

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e Vigil wis the focus o monie protests an meetins. Fae the aff there on page 104

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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
no let me through.’ Pearcey protests, pointlessly.
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
night. . .’ Pearcey meekly protests afore takin the note aff him.
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
minibus. Callum tae this day protests his innocence o’ blame fir
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McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Street protests in Brystól.
here is unrest. Muckle street protests i the soothron city o Brystó
thron city o Brystól follaed protests i the caipital city o Londono
on sicht at Britysh political protests, wis seen by monie as yit mai
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
‘’What’s this?’’ he protests. Aw dazed and huddin the enve
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’No, not at all’’ he protests. While he prepares his specia
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
not gonnae take it any mair. Protests open international eyes, the (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
there should b more of these protests - we should not be in tier 3 (2021) twitter link
vin that - time tae get some protests planned at the east lothian c (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Student protests makin news on page 194

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Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
re #mineapolis #georgesfloyd #protests @TheNational @kmckenna63 @Chr(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
e tae consultations, organise protests ir gae tae the on page 40

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