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Use in varieties of Scots

medals Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.4 5.5 4.4 19.9 0 10.3 3.9
Number of occurrences1811 3 2 0 1 1
Number of authors12 6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of medals in Corpus

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Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
Dauvit won medals at the wapinschaws; joco whan on page 8

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
t Warld War, we collectit war medals an memorabilia tae, wi maist on page 23

3 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
They gied oot aw the medals fur swimmin the day. Aw ma pa on page 14
y toon hall an she won loadsa medals fur it. Last night, she wis s on page 22

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
raw big hoose. No tae mention medals an Scottish caps galore. on page 65

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
They gied oot aw the medals fur swimmin the day. Aw ma pa
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
s on oor passports or snooker medals at the Olympics. It's sae we
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
The Wizard gied him a wheen o medals (jist like the yins that memb
i fake diplomas, citations or medals,” says Dorothy.
2 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s is easy-peasy; we dinna get medals for fit we dee, we get fyte f on page 44

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t stuck on them. Some o's got medals. But the firing squad wis fit on page 16

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Highlander’s uniform wi his medals on his breest an his sergeant
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
m I wi me plastic leg and twa medals in the draar, on page 63

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o medals an motherboards, whisperan: ' on page 4

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
three medals on his breist an the pipes so on page 136

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
They shud gie oot medals for aitin fadge ana! Aa that (2016) twitter link