A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plebs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences53 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of plebs in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
(It's as bad as thae tinkte plebs on page 113

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
manding the same if any of us plebs dare say a word no on their P (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
write a sentence - the words plebs/simpletons and hauf wits come (2020) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
tor inventin weys ti keep the plebs doon. He wisna a man ti tak l on page 54

1 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
bsShoes72 Benidorm is for the plebs. I'm aff to a caravan in Mill(2016) search twitter