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Use in varieties of Scots

plugs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 4.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences62 3 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of plugs in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
removin an cleanin the spark plugs afore checkin the oil, decidi
1 matches

Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
busker picks up eez guitar an plugs in eez
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ur her lugs war happit wi the plugs o an Ipod. Waggitie ruggit th
an Ipod. Waggitie ruggit the plugs oot wi ae yark o his beak, an
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah bocht these lug plugs fae Amazon - hiv a keek aat (2018) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
tightened up aal o the spark-plugs bit, still, hid refused tae s on page 41

1 matches

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