A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 plunk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
pouken ther knives atween thi plunk's supposidly tae fin oot hoo on page 28
n tae thim afore thi burst er plunk's. So hair's me an Baggy hudd on page 49

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fine fur Minny tae plavver an plunk on. This ae nicht, Meg Ramsay
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
. Can onybody translate this 'plunk yer chatrie, gov, the feekies (2020) twitter link

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
and plunk the jing-bang intil the ocean
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
we’d aa be playin walk the plunk or jine the crew, or sappy so
1 matches

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