A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

punt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 3 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of punt in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Disco an Parker gie Paco a punt up an oan tae the caravan roo on page 31

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Nae mair shall he punt on page 145

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Maladetta sie l'or' e 'l punt' e 'l giorno... on page 44

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s. By the way, Johnny liked a punt on the horses tae and wid usu
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ost makes the risk ae dyin, a punt worth takin.
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
@KMcAlindon Anything tae punt a Tory! (2022) twitter link

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
shoppie. I'm takkin a bit o a punt on iss een. Fingers cross it (2020) search twitter
s like we're gaan till hiv ti punt Jess, Wee Jock, Frunkie, Oliv(2020) search twitter

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
bird! We birders take mony a punt, thoo deserved yin een tae pa (2020) twitter link