A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

puns Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of puns in Corpus

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Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
, lik three packets o salt an puns o tatties an a hunner eggs be on page 45

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an ceilidh wi taigelt wires, puns, sangs, baurs an the audience
1 matches

Doric

@d_anderson878 tweeted
wi context bein aw. Graan fir puns. https://t.co/ERZYgfvwVl(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
hat we dinnae hae tae wark wi puns, shillins an pence nooadays.
1 matches

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