glesses | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
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Total Corpus | 30.9 | 99 | 47 |
ORK - Orkney | 89.4 | 9 | 7 |
SHD - Shetland | 40.7 | 7 | 3 |
TON - Tonge | |||
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | 70.3 | 2 | 1 |
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
MNA - Mid Northern A | 9.8 | 3 | 3 |
MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
SNO - South Northern | |||
ABN - Aberdeen | 35.6 | 3 | 1 |
DOR - General Northern | 44.3 | 10 | 4 |
NEC - North East Central | |||
SEC - (South) East Central | 25.6 | 10 | 5 |
WCE - West Central | 32.2 | 7 | 4 |
DUN - Dundee | 21.2 | 2 | 2 |
EDN - Edinburgh | 18.8 | 3 | 3 |
GLA - Glasgow | 32.6 | 6 | 2 |
AYR - Ayrshire | 26.2 | 2 | 1 |
LAL - General Central | 20 | 15 | 6 |
SEA - South East (Borders) | 49.9 | 4 | 3 |
SWE - South West (Galloway) | 69.5 | 5 | 2 |
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | |||
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) | 94.2 | 3 | 1 |
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) | 88.3 | 1 | 1 |
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) | |||
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast) | |||
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) | |||
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) | |||
GUL - General Ulster | 98.4 | 7 | 1 |
SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
The jimpit yoleman taks twa glesses on page 12
1 matches
Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sleeps wae his glesses oan Under the beams, on page 20
1 matches
Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
at me fae ower the top o his glesses ... on page 129
1 matches
Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ahll need thick glesses like Celia soon on page 103
1 matches
Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ressed in silver passed roond glesses o champagne on page 91
1 matches
Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
an sparkling ahint half-moon glesses an his nose wis gey long an c
n wife whar wis wearan square glesses exactly the shape o the marki
n dabbed her eyes beneath her glesses. Dumbledore gaed a great snif
3 matches
Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Shü pat on her glesses an oppened da letter. on page 22
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ae his feet an yockit aff his glesses. “Tushie Truncherfaece, ple
” Alabaster said pittin his glesses back on wi authority.
2 matches
Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ower a desk. He pushed peerie glesses up ower his skave nose. He wi
1 matches
Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
ither's decor, an their fusky glesses makin rims on her occasional on page 94
1 matches
@FaeFoggie tweeted
I read Dalmatians. Needin new glesses! ??(2020)
Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
n weerin a pair o aal-farrant glesses. He haed to be oxtert up the on page 30
1 matches
Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
fae affa funcy glesses. Fin the lassie mair or less
1 matches
Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
his glesses tae see fit he wis deein. Jon
Jonsar coodnae believe it the glesses
bit the glesses hid simply vanished. Jonsar E
onsar Eck kept lookin for the glesses, he looked in a'a the boxes f
specs". Jonsar Eck kent his glesses at a glance an asks the elect
6 matches
TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
Time tae clink oor glesses high
1 matches
@Franwella tweeted
sel in the face n knockin yer glesses off.....bit it wiz affa funny(2011)
Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
A lang drink ae watter wi wee glesses oan. Archie went through the on page 1
4 matches
Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
egant looking boay wae readin glesses pushed tae the edge ae his no on page 52
1 matches
Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ere awfy nice: gien her a few glesses o wine an helped her tae pick on page 81
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
a hard man like him. Nae rosy glesses here but yit anither, this ti
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
r the Scots throu rose-tintit glesses in his poetry. For example, i
1 matches
Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Hes wife puled her glesses doon aff her broo, frae ablow
1 matches
Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Oor glesses aye hauf-fou, on page 38
aye slype oan yer rose tintit glesses, on page 117
2 matches
Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
i' ma brand new telly Them 3D glesses uv knoaked me skelly ‘Ur's
A pit oan ma new glesses an' seen the lines in yer fac
2 matches
Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
n his coonter an polishin his glesses for an oor an a hauf aforehau
1 matches
McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
an a`. And as thi rose-tintit glesses fa` awa, yi see clearly, an`
1 matches
Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
eather mattresses, the leukin-glesses, the horsehair cootch, the Br
1 matches
Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s ermchair wi a bottle an twa glesses aside him on a wee table. He
1 matches
Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
They glesses ready readers on page 83
1 matches
Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ot the table, collectin empty glesses an puttin them oan wan ay the
a as McDade hauds the tray ay glesses above his heid, ‘Oot the wa
heid, ‘Oot the waiy gents, glesses comin through here. Mind yer
3 matches
Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
seat’s empty, the plates an glesses cleared away.
1 matches
Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
staundin up and liftin their glesses. "Tae Mr Tod! Lang may his lu on page 76
1 matches
Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t aulder than twelve and wore glesses that made him look richt brai on page 3
kin muckle swallaes fae their glesses o wine, and peyin nae heed at on page 51
tattooed on Olaf's ankle. His glesses birled aff o his neb and skit on page 54
r. Sunny crawled ower tae his glesses, picked them up, and brung th on page 55
Klaus took aff his glesses, like he ayeweys did when he on page 80
Also on pages 134, 138
7 matches
Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
l in, maugre o hes new strang glesses, bit he cuid see thai wirnae on page 16
aw noo. Sae lang's he kep hes glesses oan onywey. Peeliewallie didn on page 18
2 matches
Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
stin tae tak tent that keekin glesses and combs, sic as thon seen o
1 matches
Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
rade up the brae, tilted his glesses on his lang nose, rubbed his
1 matches
Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
glesses, an ae day whan A leukit it h
ir side weys on, in ahint hir glesses;
2 matches
@jamie_ginger tweeted
ci trainers oan. 46 per o sun glesses, 88 watches up there airm and(2020)
Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
circulatit wi glesses an race cairds, on page 135
1 matches