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Use in varieties of Scots

clockwork Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.6 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences119 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of clockwork in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
we ride intae Glasgow on the clockwork orange on page 116

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
aff every nicht as regular as clockwork, and until then, they'd aw be on page xvii

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
It wis a gowd and siller clockwork nichtingale, studded aw ower on page 102
mperor woond the bird up, its clockwork gaed clunk! and the birlin bi on page 105
Music Maister declared. "The clockwork bird plays awfie weel. Dinnae on page 106
," the Emperor girned tae the clockwork bird by his bed. "Skyrie bird on page 108

5 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
f ounce every week regular as clockwork lead me tae ma conclusion. Ah
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sayed. “You can build us a clockwork time-machine and we’ll go b
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
r was. Twise a wik, reglar as clockwork, ilka Sabbath Day an ilka Tye on page 88

1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Tickan ower jist like clockwork on page 36

1 matches

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