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Use in varieties of Scots

amazon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.7 5 5.9 9.9 11.6 10.3 4.8
Number of occurrences1910 4 1 2 1 1
Number of authors15 7 3 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of amazon in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
lls, bocht umpteen things aff Amazon, switched aff Sky News tae no on page 77

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e his sword. Instantly aw the Amazon warriors had their cauld blad on page 39
n tae their ship wi hunners o Amazon warriors chasin efter them. M on page 41

3 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
e an that arrived the day fae Amazon
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ked.. Bungy jumping intae the Amazon river Brian.. ?? ... She like (2023) twitter link

@annieones tweeted
?????????? yer baith daein an amazon joab. Thanks hen xxx (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
h dinnae approve o buying fae Amazon so ah'll hae tae wait tae ah'(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
scammers claiming to be from amazon that are phoning people just (2020) twitter link

Doric

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ncle takin a steamship up the Amazon river on horseback tae Lake T on page 25

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah bocht these lug plugs fae Amazon - hiv a keek aat the michty (2018) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@peer_audrey Comin fae Amazon neist wik. Hopefully(2020) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ct. 'Am lippenan a parcel fae Amazon'....'Weel, I didn't lippen hi(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
son Goin ta buy a new wan fae amazon (2018) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ks frae Waterstones raedir as Amazon, an even tryin tae use indies(2021) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
First review on Amazon of my new illustrated book of(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@barriegadgey Jest fae Amazon: Ulster Books pit them oot. T (2016) twitter link