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Use in varieties of Scots

midnight Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 5.6 3 19.9 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1711 2 2 1 0 1
Number of authors14 8 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of midnight in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Noo it's lang aifter midnight, it's ma time tae bolt, on page 32

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
rgery ah heard the boay did a midnight flit and never even selt as m on page 70

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
said Laura, Yi could go lik a midnight walk alang the sea front - on page 112
furthest we've ever been is a midnight bus run tae Blackpool before on page 164

2 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
he'll taste dead good fur ma midnight feast." on page 22

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ts and a t-shirt. It’s near midnight, A’m soakin, but et least i
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ts tae Sarajevo pushin on fur midnight. It hud slipt further and fur
1 matches

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
oon for the nicht. Aboot hauf midnight, a horrific roar came fae out
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
year ah goat up tae pee aroon midnight and saw the flickering telly-
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Midnight flit by a spiritous flirt
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ecially since its jist turned midnight. The streets will be peaceful
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Fan midnight came, I finally went intae a
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
i the dunce it finished afore midnight nae winner we were binge drin(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Too soon, hid cam tae midnight so I drank me haffie dry on page 30

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
eid. In fact, it wis gey near midnight when the cat moved at all.
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ill on whin I gying ta bed at midnight. Maggie Ann wis in aboot da n on page 5

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
e it seem'd or was, amang the midnight storm, That kept me lang in l (2019) twitter link