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Use in varieties of Scots

perfeck Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 5.3 28.8 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences2910 18 0 0 1 0
Number of authors12 8 3 1

Occurrences of perfeck in Corpus

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Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
haund, a leg, a heid. He wis perfeck, like a hero frae an auld san on page 59

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Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'Nae place is perfeck,' said the tod wi a sauch. Sy on page 68

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
s byous buik is thocht o as a perfeck exemple o its kin. Onybody wh on page 62

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
leuk at the wey he's gotten a perfeck fit atween the grun an the wa on page 65

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
n rhythms that Byrne haes the perfeck lug for wi lines the likes o
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
l script, he had dashed aff a perfeck couplet an read it oot tae he
Nusiret sayed menacingly, in perfeck Chinese, “Whit dae ye ken a
un tae sing for aa thir pitch-perfeck Auld People.
3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
s. Noo these dinna aw line up perfeck-like – an the gleg amang ye
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
Scots airguably gies the perfeck ensaumple o the wey that Scot
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y black spot oan an itherwise perfeck day wis Eric: bi the time the on page 17
aff bi the knees an they fit perfeck." on page 21
"He's ower perfeck," said Sandy. "Iv ye ask me, on page 35
"She souns perfeck, min! Ah richt craacker. Ah w on page 52
hin o sin - clean an pure an perfeck. on page 67
Also on pages 89
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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
o gold chines; his teeth war perfeck; an his een war as black as h on page 8
oobs...ma ideal wumman. She', perfeck...absolutely perfeck!" "So... on page 56
aff his face wi drink an his 'perfeck wumman' wis sittin ower fae h on page 61
Perfect Red' must mean you're perfeck an aa." on page 65
yewis wintit till. Ess is the perfeck opportunity te try new hobbie on page 84
Also on pages 88
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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
m fairmer's dream o finnin at perfeck wumman wis es far awa es ivve on page 35
An syne it cam tull im - the perfeck response. on page 42
e widna termint er. Naebody's perfeck - aiven you." on page 51

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ad it be ither? Fat seemt the perfeck answer tae me was a fremd ada
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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
r database wis near as dammit perfeck. Tissue-matchin cudnae hae bi
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Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
byordinary perfeck an pure the Son o Gud can bei
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