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inventit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 10.1 4.8 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2219 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors15 13 2

Occurrences of inventit in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
trees. Wonder whey naebody's inventit a licht like the moon. Yin th on page 1

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
up fur sale. And tae think ah inventit it aw by masel,' he added pau on page 19

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
r example, that he has himsel inventit mair than twa hunner new kind on page 12
cientist, Professor Feelheid, inventit a machine that wid tell ye at on page 28
t, minty sugar that I've jist inventit! I caw it swudge! Gaun, tak a on page 76

4 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
il is the dippitest idea ever inventit. On wan haun, ye've wee stank on page 3

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
these pieces. The Perjinkians inventit them lang syne as a wey o kee on page 13

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
James Black, James Watt inventit the modern warld on page 91

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
h's. Because yin tme Pooh had inventit a sang that gaed, on page 47
e cried Poohsticks, that Pooh inventit, and that he and his freends on page 88

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
reik'....an I think thon wes inventit by the speaker hersel. The sm on page 7

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
r tae an artifeecial language inventit bi a poet frae last century,
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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
he peges o Ballantyne. R.L.S. inventit caracts lik “Long John Silv
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
atre gangers thocht that 7:84 inventit poleitical radicalism in the
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
tho aiblins thon hidnae been inventit in the seeventeent century.
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Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
The Pechts war, in a sense, inventit bi the Romans. The Romans did
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
alus’s young apprentice had inventit a saw – something that naeb
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
inventit
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Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
n aa the poems at's iver been inventit, an a fair hantle at hesna be on page 83

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Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
he wird ‘Doric’ hidna bin inventit – it wis jist the wye wi sp
1 matches

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