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Use in varieties of Scots

allowance Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.1 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1310 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 6 2 1

Occurrences of allowance in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ed and lose your job seeker's allowance.' on page 103

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d fish wrapper ma Joabseekers Allowance hus been stoaped because ah o on page 119
ted your claim for Jobseekers Allowance. A benefit sanction is standa on page 126
to reinstate your Jobseekers Allowance today". He then leans oor the on page 127

3 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t mean they'd stop yir Family Allowance. on page 169

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
e day's Scots speakers, makin allowance for the orra spellins.
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ar drap a £30 excess baggage allowance in ma shorts.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nt brought in the Job Seekers Allowance towards the end of last year.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ought in this Joab Seeker’s Allowance, it’s aw placements an that
1 matches

Doric

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
the welfare state wi faimily allowance and sae forth.
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Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
new month o ma phone’s data allowance. I went ben tae Grunny’s be
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
f a flat ... give her a small allowance, she shouldn't be very demand on page 35

1 matches

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