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playfair Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 11.3 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2222 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of playfair in Corpus

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o geology, an the ither, John Playfair (1748-1819) the kirk meeniste
t aiblins it is the lines fae Playfair's 1805 wark Illustrations of
s backbane chitter the maist. Playfair wrate “The mind seemed to g
e abyss of time.” Hutton an Playfair's new uptak o geologic time w
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Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ins in the ootpit o a William Playfair. This I didna ken, an bein so
William Playfair wis born in 1759 in the wee c
. His aulder brither wis John Playfair, that gaed on tae become a fa
n the echteent century. Ane o Playfair’s mony innovations wis tae
Afore Playfair data wis representit in table
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