A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pell'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pellOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 pell in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
es an dunna come back til yon pell is foo. Da bairns need aa da
da worse. “Maam, I need da pell, A’m feelin seeck…” oob
Of coorse, I wis furt wi da pell, so Uggledlugs emptied himsel
faald wi grips. Thankfully da pell wis handy dis time. Meenie wi
4 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
thing they did wis tae binner pell-mell roond the mairches o the on page 6

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
like whit skites oot yer tap pell-mell. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fr on page 77

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
it's aal aboot pilin pell-mell intae guid caule watter on page 30

1 matches

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