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Use in varieties of Scots

helicopter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.7 9.6 16 0 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences3018 10 0 1 1 0
Number of authors17 14 1 1 1

Occurrences of helicopter in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
fit high onyroad. Ye waant a helicopter, that's whit you waant, That on page 1

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is too warm fur it, an then a helicopter had tae come wi a special cag on page 162

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
red, hingin in mid-air like a helicopter, hingin ower the factory and on page 164

1 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
An yet a helicopter on the Barra strand on page 49

2 matches

White, Ian Nimmo Lallans 73 - Whit credit crunch, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the helicopter birled and yattered on page 51

1 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Maun we mak new wirds fir a chyngin warld?, (The National 2020) Central, newspaper
versal joke ‘blah blah blah helicopter blah blah blah’. A’d be s
rds fir thae concepts aither: helicopter (French, frae Latinised Greek
tellin the ‘blah blah blah helicopter blah blah blah’ joke aw spe
3 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The polis helicopter’s flyin aboot above me an a
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ourse, when he spied a Police helicopter. It moved ower tae him an’
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Feydom, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
we seen a polis helicopter
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
there would be folk dain the helicopter n that?? they've just told ye(2017) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
tae say, anybody else see the helicopter hovering over the top o' Arth (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
??. Hae a slice o pizza?? an helicopter?? oan me! Huggggggsssss fae S(2014) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
Never mind helicopter Sunday??. Whit aboot awe thes(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- first time av ever seen a helicopter lol (2020) twitter link
it wis awesome - first helicopter av ever seen lol https://t.co (2021) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
gap in the curtains. A black helicopter is circling high up abeen ma
a rope ladder unfurls fae the helicopter doon into my backie. An Offic
inning. High up above us, the helicopter maks a whining noise as it’
h o the sky as I can see. The helicopter’s nae wye in sight.
They blew you over, and your helicopter.’
10 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Coastgaird. Dey called oot da helicopter right away, an fan him at da on page 55

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
the bit bi helicopter whan the centre wis apent i M
1 matches

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