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laptop Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 7.7 7.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences2215 5 0 2 0 0
Number of authors11 7 3 1

Occurrences of laptop 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

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
hur bedside table. She hus a laptop. Maybe it's a sign the time h on page 90
hankin hur fur the loan o hur laptop. Ah cannae blame hur; it's gr on page 92

4 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
cked aw the news sites oan ma laptop.
™s a dry cough. Ah look at ma laptop. Dave and the rest o them are
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And oan the coffee table the laptop sits and is almost eggin me o
tart noo. Ah’ve whipped the laptop oaff the table and began firi
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e temptation ae firin oan the laptop again. Ah need tae git massel
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
@MoosyerCoo92 I'm on the laptop.. And at the top of the home (2023) twitter link

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
ing oot tae Curries for a new laptop ??????(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
@arabshedboy Ok on the laptop, but disnae cast tae the tv v(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
@4Viewers On ma laptop, usin Chrome browser. Is this(2020) search twitter
chap fae work came tae fix ma laptop. https://t.co/ChpQ9uKsZF(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
n find the government oan yer laptop ???? https://t.co/NU9V6sl43Y (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
she sut doon aside him wi her laptop an scrolled doon the page on on page 6

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ee ower the keyboord o ma new laptop. Seconds later, the computer on page 50
, "Noo, lut's git back te ess laptop an Ah'll show ye foo te compr on page 51

2 matches

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
stole my hairt (as weel as a laptop, some jewellery and a set oâ€
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
stly adult.....I will not tak laptop tae bed(2011) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
My new laptop has arrived! Will try not ta (2021) twitter link
worlds up an runnin on da new laptop an I feel lik dis https://t.c (2021) twitter link