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Use in varieties of Scots

flicker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 3 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences139 2 0 0 1 1
Number of authors11 7 2 1 1

Occurrences of flicker 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

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Five year later, the last wee flicker ay a flame that remained went on page 12

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ds!" ah shout. Ma eyes dinnae flicker fae their direction. The hale on page 184

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
meh eyes start ti flicker an eh start on page 19

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
hile mobile videos stream and flicker on page 92

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
La Jolla's spanish lights flicker in her eyes on page 11

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Caunle-nicked tae flicker oan the waa on page 112

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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
door an mebbe ye’d catch a flicker o an ee in the spyglass, the
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ificant, gaun-fuckin-naewhere flicker ay a life, extinguished. Blaw
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Five year later, the last wee flicker ay a flame that remained, wen
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Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Life will flicker within ye and withoot ye on page 134

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Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and airms. “It’s only the flicker o the lamp!” she’d reassu
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Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The flicker o' his flame on page 6

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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
rstood ilka hairtbeat an ilka flicker o his sad een, an she foun a on page 43

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