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Use in varieties of Scots

tubes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 7.2 9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2014 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors13 8 5

Occurrences of tubes in Corpus

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Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
A fankle o tubes birlin oot o existence. on page 30

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e's lyin in a hospital bed wi tubes stuck up her nose, an then th on page 126
yees talkin aboot ya bunch ae tubes yi widnae get sent tae a home on page 131

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
wee caps ontae the taps o the tubes o toothpaste efter the tubes on page 5
ners and hunners o thin gless tubes, and the gless tubes aw curle on page 104

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
foond a haill boorach o toom tubes and toom aerosols and toom bo on page 76

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is wee granny’s goat fuckin tubes comin oot her nose an throat
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. There are six wee dark reid tubes. She hauns me a plastic cup o
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Sin tubes in the croud wur willint tae
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
mary four the teacher gied us tubes of glitter but it wis quite m
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
an hour on buses (incubation tubes on wheels) tae get tae the ho (2022) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
. Veesitors can wak throu the tubes an spheres that mak up the st on page 13

1 matches

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
here’s wires stickin oot an tubes an pipes. Ye ken that folk re
1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Onniwey thay tain fower tubes o bluid an gied awa.
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
t that’s been grown in test tubes, meat that canna compare wie
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lled o ground doon bike inner tubes tae absorb the sound o the di
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nt I’m in a hospital bed wi tubes stickin oot o ma aa ower the
1 matches

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