Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

cent	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	12.4	41	16
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	42	4	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central	137.6	3	1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	31	5	1
GLA - Glasgow	10	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	14.4	11	5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cent in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
pronto, ah'm deductan ten per cent on page 65

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
y mebbe tae geng up bi 40 per cent , I canna blame dem.
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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
the NHS also fund that 58 per cent o fowk fa suffer fae depressi
a pack o 20. ’At’s 90 per cent less cigarettes for mair than
the price. Yet still, 20 per cent o Scotland’s population arn
3 matches

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
Seventy per cent o Scots weemin wark, either a
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ae the state rose by 97.5 per cent in 2016. The lack o ony ither
tastically positive: a 27 per cent increase in visitors steyin a
at hotels an B and Bs; 20 per cent mair spent by visitors on bev
3 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
He chairges 50 per cent a week oan the money he's len on page 110

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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ainge that – no even 55 per cent o’ fowk tellin’ me ah’m
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ll likely be amang the 86 per cent o pigs in the UK1 kilt in gas
uchterhoose last year. 86 per cent o pigs in the UK is kilt in u
n greement anent this: 63 per cent o us is in fauvours o the gov
survey fund that only 14 per cent o Brítons even kent aboot th
RSPCA says that aboot 60 per cent o soos in the UK is keepit in
5 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t he isnae being a hunner per cent serious. on page 59

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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay it. Sais it’s thirty per cent a week interest. Bog standard
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General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
Aye, as much as forty per cent o' a thin' we dae ivry day ar on page

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Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
islands - the airts o 20 per cent or muckler densitie. Yon are on page 12
t in airts whaur least 20 per cent o the population haed leid sk on page 13
order, wi a tairget o 100 per cent. She addit that this required on page 35
es been an approximate 50 per cent drap in the level o proveesio on page 39
nd - or pairt-fund - 39 per cent o projects in the last fundin on page 58

5 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ies Inglis mair nor fifty per cent o the wirds i The Oxford Engl
otower the twa. Up tae 95 per cent o the cunyies discovert in Sc
onversely three tae fower per cent o the cunyies discovert in En
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
d ower in Scotland - 1.7 per cent o the population - reportit
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@ClashCityClarky tweeted
tion. But oors wan hunner per cent is.(2020)