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Use in varieties of Scots

spectacles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1 1.5 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences72 1 0 0 0 4
Number of authors5 2 1 2

Occurrences of spectacles in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ou didn't lose more than your spectacles, said Mister Singh. Ah think on page 165

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
They auld spectacles on page 83

1 matches

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
E White Rabbit pit on his spectacles. "Where will A begin, please on page 115

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
tae the bak o hit heid, helf spectacles sittin on the end o a neb lan on page 60

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Then me Faither adjustit his spectacles, on page 8
Waeoot mae spectacles in place. on page 52

3 matches

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