A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ashtrays Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 4.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences62 3 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of ashtrays in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ae go around the pubs emptyin ashtrays wi a bucket. And ye'd hink sh on page 79

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
een two wee porcelain cottage ashtrays an' pic't wan up tae huv a sw
1 matches

Doric

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
hunners o tabbies in ashtrays thick as bricks, on page 33

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
o ashtrays dichted clean, the whine on page 19

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
better get rid o the smell o ashtrays fae ma breath, so I used my s
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Mind Tartan Special and fu' ashtrays on page 14

1 matches

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