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Use in varieties of Scots

letterbox Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0.5 4.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences61 3 1 0 1 0
Number of authors6 1 3 1 1

Occurrences of letterbox in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
jist as a rattle cam frae the letterbox. He rizz wi graisly jynts. 'H on page 18

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ide the phone an waatchin the letterbox. on page 52

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
ck ben the hoose. I heard the letterbox flap open fae the inside.
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
harities post bags through ur letterbox to fill wee clyes! Thats 3rd (2016) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid slipped in through the letterbox and plopped doon on the mat. on page 9

1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
hoever posted this through my letterbox this evening (we’re 116 mile(2019) search twitter