Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plowterin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

plowterin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	31.4	5	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	4
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)	88.3	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 plowterin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
naething on the grund an sae plowterin intil the heap o shairn wi a
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
mukkil wirth daein as semplie plowterin about i boits. Semplie plowte
about i boits. Semplie plowterin ,’ he gaed in a dwam; ‘plo
,’ he gaed in a dwam; ‘plowterin – about – in – boits �
�� about – in – boits – plowterin – about – in – boits; p
– about – in – boits; plowterin – ”
5 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
lood splairge o sumhin hivvie plowterin aboot in the pound. Oo cuidna on page 59

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
in the plowterin rain on page 3

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
the frost an snaw, or he wis plowterin aboot up tae his knees in gla on page 17

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
easurin it for lowpin ower or plowterin richt throu it. An no juist m
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
A wuz awa maesel, then, plowterin bak on page 29

1 matches