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Use in varieties of Scots

formation Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.1 7.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences126 5 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of formation in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ir a quest fir the origins an formation o wir National Identitie nor on page 84

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Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e Trotternish ridge, a muckle formation o black craigs an braes o sta
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Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Gas formation
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n” (*boak*) as a fairly new formation didna help thaim onie, an the
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
GusBracks93 the morris dancin formation lol (2020) twitter link
land r going for an attacking formation 2 nite against faroes - ffs (2021) twitter link

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Atlantic Ocean meet. Noo the formation o the cave is spectacular. Th
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@72redz1903 tweeted
me time due tae the change in formation - simply, Duk is keeping him (2022) twitter link
in there analysing his set up/formation in July. There is so much tha (2022) twitter link
n ah season. Didnae mater fit formation he played and tae be frank, t (2022) twitter link
ngy Absolutely no way - this formation is working, plenty bodies up (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
3 Morphology an wird-formation: makkin an inflectin wirds in on page 38

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