A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'partridge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
partridgeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 partridge in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
black and white film by Mike Partridge, projected on the back curtee on page 34

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ght oot since Christmas. Alan Partridge then... Marlex? Heavy Metal B(2013)

Mid Northern A

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
So he hid a trip te Stanley partridge the motor factor
So back te Stanley partridge for a big John Deere

Dundee

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
The Twelve Days o Xmas, an a partridge in a pear tree?
1 matches

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
a paitrick family. (Scots for partridge)(2019)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Cannae stand yon Alan Partridge. Aboot as funny as a boot in (2020)