A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'paste'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pasteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 paste in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
as the batter she steert Tae paste - hoo wis that for a caper? on page 15

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I nivir gie ye ma meat paste on page 186

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
eys could be grund doun tae a paste an gied tae bairns as porage.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
I goat the, Paste Spreadin' - Carpet Treadin',
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Eatin paste, on page 21

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
carly a 16th-century copy-and-paste o Marie Maitland’s poem 86:
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ellin thegither intae a flour paste that dreipt ontae the stairhe
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@jamiegreeneUK Copy and paste. Its the Tory way. Nae need f(2020)
t like jam, marmalade or meat paste but what aboot potted hough? (2019)
And there we hae it. Cut and paste doon the Tory offices.(2020)

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