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chainge Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15.9 19 0 0 0 144.7 0
Number of occurrences5137 0 0 0 14 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of chainge 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
a maw says. 'Jist felt like a chainge.' on page 1

4 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
They telt me that tae chainge the world wis a war ne'er tae on page 95

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
'The mair things chainge, the mair things stey the sam on page 191

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
. Yet if gien the chaunce tae chainge they'd maist like knock it ba on page 103
He could chainge aa they licht bulbs, on page 143

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
A, "some'hing's gau' hae tae chainge." on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
s in the writin o'd. We canna chainge the fack that "heeligoleery"
s starts wirds: chaft, chain, chainge, chair, chairge, chairms, cha
uid Scots should send them on chainge-aboot schemes wi bairns fae i
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
I, "some'hing's gau' hae tae chainge."
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
white bloose. She lat faa the chainge intae ma luif an turned back
ot at this time. A coonted ma chainge like A should a in the shop,
in tae see her lattin faa the chainge intae ma luif again like a pa
meenit she haes tae see'z ma chainge, but syne a grand inspiration
urns aboot an she raxes me ma chainge. The same quick lattin faa o
7 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t tae pull away as the lights chainge an they’re off, beepin the
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e. ‘Cheers driver, keep the chainge.’ ah sais, haunin oer a ten
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
f ye ask me but who am ah tae chainge things? The West ay Scotland
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ye kin chainge employer but the exploitative
1 matches

Pennie, Len The Wheesht, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
They telt me that tae chainge the world wis war ne’er tae
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
d daes aathing for ye? Ye can chainge the warld, redd it o the caff
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ho ah am an’ naethin’ cun chainge that – no even 55 per cent
got robbed again. We let them chainge the goalposts oan us hauf way
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e it or whit, but there’s a chainge in him – an unpredictabilit
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
land, tellin him tae keep the chainge aff the tenner ah gie him.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ur weel aware that the wind o chainge wis blawin an they needed tae
e on the richt side when that chainge came.
t did ony guid fur the wind o chainge blew even harder. Before the

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
g man, deid at 32 whae helped chainge Scottish history wi whit he d

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
young man, deid at 32, helped chainge Scottish history wi whit he d

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
government says it’s aw tae chainge. Ye say naw. An nixt thing ye

@OliphantWullie tweeted
n Fife. Dae ye trust them tae chainge their minds this time?? Guid (2022) twitter link

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
lice, fair shook at th sudden chainge, but awfy gled tae funnd hers on page 19
d Ahlice, in a fair hurry tae chainge th subject o conversation. "A on page 22
ht, "eet's share tae mak some chainge in ma size; an as eet cannae on page 39
bit feirt b' this awfy sudden chainge, but she felt that there was on page 50
Ah only kent th mcht wei tae chainge thum-" when she got a gliff b on page 61
Also on pages 71, 73, 96, 98, 104, 123, 124
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