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Use in varieties of Scots

ceiling Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.5 4.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences127 3 0 0 0 2
Number of authors11 7 2 2

Occurrences of ceiling in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
his desk to the huge floor-to-ceiling window. Sunshine beats in fro on page 14

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Knockin doon the glass ceiling an buildin an attic? on page 15

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
thing o great interest on the ceiling.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
mpany, point his nose tae the ceiling and then pit his face tae the
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
s, looking straight up at the ceiling. He disnae reply fir a mo’,
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
rn_freedom A just whited that ceiling ??(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
mathie_dan Time tae paint the ceiling(2020) search twitter

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
oan the sofa starin up at the ceiling. The waa paper wis stained br on page 42

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
nd fit aboot fan Cove reach a ceiling, start losing mair than they (2022) twitter link
ty element. Cove will reach a ceiling and soon I wid guess, let’s (2022) twitter link

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ir heid wus pressin agane the ceiling, an shae had tae bend doon ta on page 34

1 matches

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
at the front deur and when ma ceiling fell doon, it was the best so
1 matches

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