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Use in varieties of Scots

mothballs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0 0 9.9 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences30 0 1 1 1 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of mothballs in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me suit reek'd strong o mothballs bit I lukk'd a proper gent on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
these old customs out of the mothballs for special occasions. It add on page 35

1 matches

Southern

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
I smellt the guff o mothballs ae day, as I cam in frae feed
1 matches

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