paraffin | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occurences normalised per million words | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 0 | 17.4 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 15 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
LIQUID PARAFFIN, the nixt yin wis cawed. It w on page 21
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lute (suit); Joe Soap (dope); paraffin, paraffin ile (style); plates
, paraffin ile (style); plates o’ meat
iatit wi Glasgow. Ithers like paraffin must be Scots because ile rhy
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McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
spot oan the bank an lit the paraffin stove an pumpt it up till it
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@g_hibby tweeted
. ?? Wonder if it wid run oan paraffin?.. (2022) twitter link
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. On the secunt nicht fin the paraffin lamp wis flichterin low an th
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Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and left it burning, wasting paraffin wisna the worst o’t? The th
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De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
LIQUID PARAFFIN, da neist een wis caa’ed. H
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