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Use in varieties of Scots

truck Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15 6.7 46.7 9.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences4813 31 1 3 0 0
Number of authors18 10 4 1 3

Occurrences of truck in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
he corner a big cooncil roads truck was sittin, somethin churnin on page 1

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ae bake fae laun tae haun tae truck tae box tae ship tae shop tae on page 77

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ae bring them in a muckle big truck!' said Grannie Geordietta. on page 24
? He's gettin intae the first truck wi his mither and faither!"' on page 167

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
He wis a truck driver back hame in the State on page 136

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ie Sector. We got tooken in a truck an got drappit hauf a mile aw on page 65

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
gaithert up an piled intae a truck. Sic hellish destruction, an
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Martin saw you at the Dog and Truck last night. You might be part
1 matches

Lawrenson, Dorothy Ranch Road 12, San Marcos, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Fife, poetry
wi ilk truck that wins by.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he way you let her drive that truck ... yes, I think you could wi
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ven HER faithful will have no truck with it. Hence the nursery-sl (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
et, year after year, there is truck load after truck load of sala (2022) twitter link

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
bed ma hairt oot fin the army truck cam tae pick up Carlo. I clun on page 28

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
huge, shiny yalla Tonka dump truck, gey near as big as hissel. H
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
tae notice that Jonsar Eck's truck wis gey
onsar Eck wis gettin on gran, truck affa near teem, money teen in
hoose shook, the truck shook, an Jonsar Eck shook.
teem bags in ower his truck, fin Teenie says. "Div you se
s he crunched the gears o his truck in his haste tae get
22 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Broon An Roost (at's Jonsars truck) quicker than you cood spit.
mps. Jonsar Eck loaded up his truck wi
an pit fuel intae his truck fin he reached Macduff. As he
the truck Plastic Hank asks, "Foo much
Jonsar Eck stopped his truck, gets oot ower an asks. "Onyb
6 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
riconforensic @archivetvmus71 Truck driver with the ape? Bonkers!(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
s - on the back o a brakdoon truck. on page 41

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
, an every noo an dan dey wid truck apon her taes whin dey cam ow on page 100

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
hoid in. Da cars cam on, an a truck. Da starn wis hauled up. Da e
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
t gits when he geens eftir da truck? Dat’s me wi da gritter (2020) twitter link

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