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Use in varieties of Scots

snooker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 1.5 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1612 1 3 0 0 0
Number of authors13 10 1 2

Occurrences of snooker in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
room wear yi can play pool an snooker an table tennis an thir's hun on page 151

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
a hurry tae get back tae the snooker, in case John Higgins needed on page 80
Meanwhile the snooker wis finished an the Big Man d on page 81
ye hear John Higgins lost the snooker? That wisna meant tae happen. on page 87

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
away fae Wullie Maclaughlan's snooker rooms an the boozers doun the on page 136

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t that ye’ve won a gem o’ snooker recently.
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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
r be a championship gowfer or snooker player, or a World Cup winnin
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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
saltires on oor passports or snooker medals at the Olympics. It's
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The car park ay a snooker club, ay aw places is where t
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Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
n' a geid thum a len’ e' ma snooker cue.
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@ClashCityClarky tweeted
online abuse suffered by male snooker players... Which kind of miss(2018) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fans in at the snooker - fans standing outside in t (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
He shoulda pit Socrates afore snooker an Berkeley afore beer, nae t on page 85

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
aroond a six-feet snooker table, fitted on page 14

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Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Baileys an a cantar roond the snooker table wae that new barman.' M on page 86

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