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greenock Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.4 19.8 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences4039 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of greenock in Corpus

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Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
y's wheem - weel he wiz frae Greenock efter aw. Ma mither wiz black on page 78

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oot o the warld at the heid o Greenock, an I confess, I thocht naebo on page 24
e Douglas, that he caad in at Greenock Mains on the Sorn road for a on page 25
ithers, auld Tammas Richard o Greenock Mains, Jean Weir o Darnhunch, on page 40
the lands o the Cruikedbank o Greenock in the pairish o Muirkirk, ma on page 48
irs juist seiven mile north o Greenock Watter, the Duke o Monmouth's on page 51
Also on pages 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 70, 75, 78, 79
27 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Greenock boy whaes broad guttural brog on page 61

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
and feelins of folk leevin in Greenock at the time he wes screevin h on page 95

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Naurby Glesgae is the Greenock Cut. This naurhaund five mile on page 65

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Fan thi Clyde atween Greenock an Helensburgh on page 74

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
uir wumman wis brocht afore a Greenock magistrate for pauchlin a kis
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
, ROVERS GET MUNICH, PARS GET GREENOCK. The Pars hud just been releg
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
bout his favourite auntie fae Greenock, and watch him doon a bottle (2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
wis, huvvin seen her speak in Greenock afore when I wis stood next t (2022) twitter link
k in Stirling willnae be like Greenock wis. She's deliberately taken (2022) twitter link
second in the bar wi Kenny in Greenock) so i can vouch for all of yo (2022) twitter link

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Germans & Italians. Loon fae Greenock kint some(2019) search twitter