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Use in varieties of Scots

metallic Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 4.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences139 3 0 0 0 1
Number of authors11 7 3 1

Occurrences of metallic in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
w amang the stanes wi a licht metallic soond. on page 83

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
details ae hur face among the metallic snowflakes. on page 39

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ffocatin or droonin. Just the metallic taste. When she came roon, ne on page 1

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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
like the squealin o a herd o metallic pigs, pierced thru the air. on page 51

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Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Thin an gowden lik a sheet ae metallic pasta. Afore A cin stap masel on page 4

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
til atoms that maks a layer o metallic bree that fleets an birls. An
um an hydrogen bree an syne a metallic hydrogen that haps a hert lik
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The metallic rattle ay an empty can rollin
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tartlin me wae the pronounced metallic double-ring ay the bell insid
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Doric

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
t catalogue clutched in their metallic claws. O’ course, we are us
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Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
did and in he went wi a lang metallic hook poking and scrappin at m
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@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
boot solid banana ye clankin' metallic hoor Ye? Ony WD40 skipper? #G(2016) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
n ower. She stapt, mindin the metallic gratin sound in the kitchen a on page 32

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