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Use in varieties of Scots

lampposts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences53 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of lampposts in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ers had startit tae appear on lampposts all over the toon. Naebody kn
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
tae take a leak oan the many lampposts we encoonter. He’s alweys b
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ein plastered. Stumblin intae lampposts and no bein able tae focus oa
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
wir med posters ta tie on ta lampposts aroond da Hillhead. Whit tink
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha lampposts were glawin like gleed on page 10

1 matches

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