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Use in varieties of Scots

accordion Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.1 8.1 24 19.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences3616 16 2 0 2 0
Number of authors12 4 5 2 1

Occurrences of accordion in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
he Boass' is eez name fir wir accordion player since she doesnae take on page 3

12 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
the prey sky. The sound o an accordion brought ma eyes oantae an old on page 41

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
uptly, the music stapped. The accordion player and the fiddler pit do
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
aundin in his kilt playin his accordion an leukin the wey he did at t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tae the blithe strains o the accordion played bi the character Big J
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he wis left wi a face like an accordion...an her neck wis aa wallopy on page 69

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
FILE MA ACCORDION GENTLY GREETS on page 158

7 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t fan o an eightsome reeler's accordion. on page 118

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
i the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs, and afa wee
The accordion and fiddle clubs aa cam aboot
That laid the foun for accordion an fiddle clubs noo dottit aa
3 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t the Echt Show as I play the accordion & harmonica with Bert(2016) search twitter
ecially when Bert got oot his accordion & I sang a few classics. Bit (2017) search twitter
a’yon Scottish songs wee ma accordion in the bar last nicht & free (2020) search twitter
few drams then Bert gets his accordion oot n’ we baith start oot we(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - A Spell o Good Wather, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a fiddle or two, accordion and bass, on page 31

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
like an accordion, see whit tune wid faal oot. on page 28

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Jock an Edwin whae played the accordion an whan ae young man, hed his
on wi his accordion, an wei ir gittin Reeky ae se
2 matches

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