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tower Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.2 13.6 16.5 0 0 10.3 31
Number of occurrences4627 11 0 0 1 7
Number of authors30 17 8 1 4

Occurrences of tower in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
She is that sakeless! She has tower thowless thorns tae fend hers on page 89

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o aicht Covenanters frae the tower at Newmilns, when twa dragoon on page 45

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
winding gorge Below the abbey tower: on page 3
Stones of the tower: why, my strutting on page 32

2 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Waterloo Tower, New Abbey on page 191

4 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
tanding afore the newly built tower with a crowd o gentry on ae s on page 87

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is buildin called the Glasgow Tower fur us. Ah wisnae really that on page 162
thir pullin doon aw the auld tower blocks, Nicola's always bummi on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Frae its lofty tower heich abune the street, on page 86

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ion, as the bison built slabs tower on page 82

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
us tae look fur the Blackpool Tower. She pulled a two-pound coin on page 31
at the ballroom at Blackpool Tower tae cheer hur up afterward. on page 32

4 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
The tower, noo white-harled, oor skeel on page 43

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
o the Tower o Babel on page 29

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the tower biggit in 1942. Scott dee'd i on page 102

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
stopian landscape. A solitary tower comprised ay corrugated iron
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Nae gift, frae some exalted tower:-
Ower Celtic music, they would tower,
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
d never been inside the stane tower o the doocot. She wis kinna f
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
in bi the fillum evidence o a tower o the USSR at year bi James L
1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
a hunner feet frae the clock-tower dome an crashed right through
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
is een fixed on the Marischal Tower, lookin for aa the warld like on page 30

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
A tower o strength - good times and on page 15

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ker Biggit Yawl, aboot twinty tower fit lang, an eit thi tyme am on page 46

1 matches

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
dream... Ye'r stood on Belém tower, lookin ower on page 34

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
s, climin up i' Scotitie Hill tower. on page 144
Ye became a legend in i' Tower Ballroom on page 170

2 matches

Rebecca, Casey and Stephen The Baby Dragon, the Wolves and the Lassies, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
e took Rebecca to a lang tall tower and kept her there for months
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
you’ll end your days in the Tower!” he said tae the Chief Con
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
above the kitchen in a little tower and the room wiz half roon. S
e room bit on the curve o the tower there wiz the bonniest lead g
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@Nicola_Meighan Is that her tower hoose(2020) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Tower o’ London? Nae, a dinnae thi(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on Scrabba's scraggy brae and tower, on page 30

1 matches

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Scrabo Tower like a bap
1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
pencil-shapit Chaine Memorial Tower an ah pictured masel liftin i
‘There’s the Tower o London in London,’ she sa
There’s the Chaine Memorial Tower in Larne,’ ah saed.
3 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
thonder on Hamilton's Bangor tower hoose the #UlsterScots cud ne (2016) twitter link
s Hamilton's 17C #UlsterScots tower hoose. https://t.co/0WB8j2uYi (2016) twitter link

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