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military Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.1 10.6 16.5 0 5.8 41.3 8.9
Number of occurrences3921 11 0 1 4 2
Number of authors25 15 4 1 3 2

Occurrences of military in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Dumfries an tuik prisoner the military commander, Sir James Turner. on page 26

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
biggit up baith poleetical an military pouer. An the haill norie o s on page 21
nd Scotland was subjeckit tae military occupation at the same time, on page 61
erved in Great Britain's orra military adventures ower the past few on page 120
richt, in the age o high-tech military sophistication, a brand-new s on page 121
fer the Trident base tae be a military tairget, ye cin see that ther on page 128

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tae go up an demonstrate the military two step wi him in front ae t on page 26

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
lican cause. He jined up as a military tribune, or tribunus militum on page 100

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
the Hieland Schotisch an the Military Two Step. Oh, we had fun in M on page 120

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
icht o Englan – economic an military-poleitical – made this lang
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
their neebours flauntit their military micht or gaed intae alliances
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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
time o Lanark, Wallace wis a military leader o ae type or anither,
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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an daein it like sodgers on a military operation. The puir wee hares
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
flouer-bauks, scarlet an gowd military bands mairchin out an in the
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in oot the windaes; flutes an military drums. It rolls tae a stoap,
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Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the military industrial complex
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
enin the screws o economic an military hegemony ower the weaker kint
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
wed Lieutenant Crichton led a military platoon up tae the Steel farm

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
4000 ordinary men wi nae real military experience.
Nae military preparations are bein made. N

@rattlecans tweeted
h And Liz Truss... no got the military like the UK had in 70s.. so s (2022) twitter link

Doric

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
tions aboot Erchie's glorious military career."
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Awarded the Military Medal November 1948.
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
y Lady Ghost of the Cambridge Military Hospital, to https://t.co/wK7(2016) search twitter
y Lady Ghost of the Cambridge Military Hospital on Mon 31st Oct aat (2016) search twitter
y Lady Ghost of the Cambridge Military Hospital https://t.co/VoVR0kH(2016) search twitter
y Lady Ghost of the Cambridge Military Hospital added to https://t.c(2017) search twitter
y Lady Ghost of the Cambridge Military Hospital, aboot Doric spiking(2017) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.

@McGoo1888 tweeted
up when they found out ahm ex military..chased them..so ah done a we (2021) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
had a peerie greet when this military plane came to transfer a pati(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
military General an it the confluence
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The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
a' conflict that oo remember.Military funerals in the Borders in re
tant task when signing up for military life.
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@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
inkin with workmates inc some military peeps, once we were in NAAFI,(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Like military battalions, on page 35

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
tae perform langside the bes' military an' civilian perfoarmers fae on page 45

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