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inventin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.4 11.1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2422 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of inventin in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e paper. Ah've aften thocht o inventin a spray fur riddin wirsels o on page 153

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ntlie self-assessin, if no re-inventin itsel, an yin that's jist had on page 84

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
The Inventin Chaumer - Never-Stap Gubstap on page 99
ey're brand-skelpin new! I am inventin them for bairns that haurdly on page 102
ood richt in the middle o the Inventin Chaumer. It wis a moontain o on page 104
eberry across the flair o the Inventin Chaumer towards the door that on page 112
across tae the faur end o the Inventin Chaumer and gaed through a sm on page 116

7 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a richt knack for buildin and inventin aw kinds o whigmaleeries, sae on page 3
al engineerin. I'm pure intae inventin things, me." on page 39
uld hae a muckle wirkshop for inventin," Violet said, as if in a dwa on page 59
nt the gears and levers o her inventin brain were birlin awa like la on page 111
Violet wis cooried awa in the inventin pairt o her brain, ower busy on page 113
Also on pages 115, 118, 121, 130
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Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
st o us ken aboot Logie Baird inventin the telly, or Watt's steam in
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
m up wi sic a variety o them, inventin aw but the scatter plot. He u
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
alace o anither foreign king, inventin new mervels. But he niver fle
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
wadna went tae the tribble o inventin a langage as weill. Or mair l
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
laik goon lik a Roman senator inventin weys ti keep the plebs doon. on page 54

1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
wus needfu' tae avoid re-inventin the wheel. Quhat vexes the pe on page 28

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