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Use in varieties of Scots

pumps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.1 4.5 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences126 3 0 1 2 0
Number of authors10 5 3 1 1

Occurrences of pumps in Corpus

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Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
put yer wee pumps oan yer trotters, wrap yer on page

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ohn Erskine for tae pouer the pumps that draint his mines. Thare' on page 65

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Gentlemen of the road, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
ma scabby auld pumps are hingin in the press.
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
out the muisaeums o ingines, pumps, plews an models o kills,
nbeiss. Furby, the wes crans, pumps, generatours, milns, plews,
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
at least she wisna weirin the pumps she had near patten on for th
1 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
och. Nae muckle wunner fan it pumps oot 500 litres o watter a sec on page 5

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
a Timpo garage set, wi petrol pumps an cars an Belisha beacons an
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ormal wi plenty o fuel at the pumps. Jonsar Eck loaded up his tru
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
hin da laek o afore. Dere wis pumps, generators, lums an conveyor
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
r years Jim manned the petrol pumps on page 40

2 matches

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