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imagination Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words18.1 17 28.8 9.9 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences5632 18 1 4 0 1
Number of authors34 20 9 1 3 1

Occurrences of imagination in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
l sautie. An the fowk hac nae imagination. They repeat whitever a bodie on page 64

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ma imagination. Most ae ma pais huv das but on page 38

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e stane. Wi a streetch ae the imagination, it just aboot hud a heid, tw on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
patent fur a wee hing cawed 'imagination'. In other words ah'm the gre on page 47

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
she wis jist lettin her vieve imagination run awa wi her. 'D'ye mean ye on page 166

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Warm, rich, imagination reekin on page 3

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
thocht it wis mebbe jist his imagination. He gied his heid a shak an k on page 65
pit up till 1569 jist hae nae imagination. on page 119

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
whit tae write. Jist use your imagination, she said. Aye but knowin ma on page 57

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEID! on page 158

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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
Imagination, shairp as the thrill o a wum on page 131

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ah'm convinced ah've gat some imagination oan me. Ah kin tell better st on page 26
Harry Potter hus captured ma imagination like this, until noo, and the on page 27

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
th o these lassies hiv a braw imagination an love stories aboot fairies on page 97

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ay, Snappy in hand. Ah'd some imagination and hunted fur just the right on page 39

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Cameron, Peter Lallans 58 - The Cornfields o Lowdie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
nd that's mair auld bluid and imagination. Tae feel the cauld! on page 47

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
the competeetion an the birr, imagination an humour shawn bi the colleg
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
thegither, Hershaw, wi vivid imagination, imposes human an societal ch
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Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
hat whit maks us human is oor imagination, oor ability tae dream o a be
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Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e hings are best left tae the imagination. Alexa knows hur ain mind, bu
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
a sae that it cuid be read wi imagination; hysted it abuin the mundane.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Matthew Fitt's imagination haes gien vyce tae Kate, the
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Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
iley wis jist a figment o her imagination. There wis nae fancy gaff in
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Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
it taks imagination an thocht
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
yer ancestors an no juist yer imagination?
yer ancestors an no juist yer imagination?
She allooed her imagination tae dwall on a Scottish loch.
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Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ut this shows a deidly want o imagination. Ower monie British fowk on t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ht guid an shawed a meisure o imagination an humour. For ordinar, the c
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Fitt, Matthew Matthew Fitt: a word aboot 'bad' language, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
€™ve got wan, a computer. Yir imagination. An idea. And words of course
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
e in ma heid .... Ower active imagination ah ken .... jist grand.

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
action taen place helped oor imagination caw up the wild highlanders a

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
etation. You have to use your imagination. Look at the bigger picture. on page 40

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an a rag-bug fir dressin-up. Imagination wis King an mony a dub-pie wi on page 21
"Aye, bit ye can use yer imagination - embellish the facks - pit on page 53
hersel a man. "Aat's jist yer imagination wirkin overtime." Dot glowere on page 85
An sic wis the power 0's imagination aat he cud see his ain dear m on page 91
mynin aboot aa the things his imagination hid shown him as he'd steed o on page 95

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
In a flicht o imagination, on page 7

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
cathedrals? Nivver. Eence yer imagination got ti wark that wad brak ony
uns. Ah thocht it wis jist mi imagination. It was richt caal in that ho
tae mak o’t. An ower vivid imagination? Ah thocht Ah micht hae a wor
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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
l that his sister hid a vivid imagination an like as no the thocht o ea
en we're there.' Here, Isie's imagination got the better o her.
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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ndit even the maist expansive imagination. Its form mutated fae month t
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
him in her bosie aa the same, imagination or no it seemed so real.
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The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
brilliant place for an active imagination. That wiz the gweed bit!
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@72redz1903 tweeted
linBurnett16 The Sociological Imagination should be taught in all schoo (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ore, becis he didna approve o imagination.
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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ood be. Owld men 'Il fill dir imagination an see whit wid mak life perf on page 17

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Williamson, Christie Gairden, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
da magical realm o dy imagination.
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
re I've allowed my fairy tale imagination to go... "ahh da birds are co(2020) search twitter
yr old midden today. Gets da imagination goin. #Shetland https://t.co/(2016) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
find something to capture the imagination of the big wean. The poem Sna(2020) search twitter