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Use in varieties of Scots

powder Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1110 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of powder in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
nd notes an a few wee bags ae powder. The two lads stoap airm wres on page 10
intae a wee bag ae marchin powder an stuffs it up Paco's nose. on page 31

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ma Adam's apple intae a fine powder. Aldo surfaced fae the shoap. on page 199

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a pedlar ay Peruvian marchin powder - sell the right product at
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ece wi’ a cherge o’ black powder an’ a smooth ba’, row’d
€™ the flint sparked, the pan powder ingited an’ haf’ a second
2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
t a’ soon’s like new soap powder tae me. Ah just wanna be able
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
hough. As soon as the marchin powder goat involved, we wur doomed
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
:D a fergot a wee bit chilli powder tae!(2020) search twitter

@changed_days tweeted
ay it was his mums new washin powder! For 7 year! (2021) twitter link

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h fitmen, Ahlice noticed, hed powder'd hair that curled aw ower th on page 54

1 matches

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