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Use in varieties of Scots

pebbles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences106 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of pebbles in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ing she knew a shooer ae tiny pebbles came rattlin in at the windae on page 40

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ss, wee plough-stanes (plough pebbles) were airtit oot. These were
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Pebbles!’ Ged sais, appearin fae na
‘Pebbles? You’re huvin a fuckin laug
copper. An whit’s wrang wae Pebbles?’ Ged sais, genuinely.
3 matches

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
wi rattlin pebbles sappit wi the saat on page 39

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
next meenad a shower o peedy pebbles came rattlan in at e window, on page 37
ticed, wi some surprise, at e pebbles were all turnan in till peedy on page 38

2 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
it emerge through da sand and pebbles but loved how dis een filled (2020) search twitter