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Use in varieties of Scots

slices Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 6.4 4.8 19.9 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences1912 3 2 0 0 2
Number of authors13 8 2 1 2

Occurrences of slices 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

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
in there ah seen? A couple ay slices ay that wae butter wid be mag on page 13

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
an started butterin a couplae slices. on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
at Pizza Hut puttin too many slices ae pepperoni oan his pizza or on page 20

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
oon breid. She cut twa skinny slices and then, fae a plastic box, on page 183
Help yersel tae breid. Baith slices are fur you. Ah never eat ony on page 184

3 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
he meat and making wafer thin slices, This is the best present mah on page 173
he just flicks his wrist and slices the hing in two wi the sword. on page 175

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n Safeway yi no lik ham as in slices ae bacon. Ah don't understaun on page 88

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wi oven roastit spiced tattie slices, garnished wi a wheen o fresh
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
wis mair circumspect, nudgin slices o silica oot the way rather t
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
in there ah seen? A couple ay slices ay that wae butter wid be mag
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"A fyow slices o chucken," said Ina, efter a on page 26
ang, turnin ower daark curlin slices o earth es he gaed; sea-maws on page 89

2 matches

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
seen ane afore. In atween twa slices o loaf they stuff ham, twa ky on page 9

1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He slices the upper foggy paet wae his on page 60

2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
a dozen eggs in a bow] an twa slices o bacon happed in paper. Leon on page 1

1 matches

Swannock Fulton, Rab ahm grinnin lik an eejit , (Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 ISBN: 978-0948877698) Ulster - Galway, poetry
n banana slices stewin on page 38

1 matches

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