A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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mantelpiece Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.5 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences107 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of mantelpiece in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
See? Oan ma mantelpiece? on page 70

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
Victoria ower the livin-room mantelpiece. They were jist comin doon th on page 6

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
he left ir weddin ring on the mantelpiece an stormed oot the hoose. 'Sh on page 46

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
am fae the neep sittin on the mantelpiece an the fire bleezin in the gr
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tickin ay the cloack oan the mantelpiece. The door goes again, louder
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
r wis a Ye don’t luk it the mantelpiece whin yur pokin’ the fire.
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
ben the scullery an no oan ma mantelpiece or a'll skepit yer lug ya wee (2021) twitter link

Doric

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
k aff a her ornaments aff the mantelpiece and pit them on the fleer. So
id notice it wis gone fae the mantelpiece.
2 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
ced ower tae the clock on the mantelpiece, an sprang tae her feet. "Lor on page 18

1 matches

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