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Use in varieties of Scots

colonel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 9.9 1.5 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences2220 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of colonel in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cross the moss tae Cumnock an Colonel Douglas had him shot there at on page 44
he dout, an a fair trial frae Colonel Douglas ower at Cumnock! ... on page 60
the auld man's life; but that Colonel Douglas peyd nae heed an had on page 61
disposed tae the venture, for Colonel, nou General, Lord Cathcart h on page 79

4 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
ately, Mistress Chisholm, the Colonel's missus, cam intae his heid. on page 1

14 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
g ‘Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts’, at a panto i
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
d Jacobites, a stane tae deid Colonel Anne, a plaque tae deid Rabbi
1 matches

Doric

Templeton, Sheila Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
gman's noose - fit saved ye, Colonel Anne? on page 62

1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Boul Colonel Paddy caa'd his hame, on page 2

1 matches

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