A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'puns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
punsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of puns in Corpus

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(South) East Central

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

Dundee

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

General 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

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

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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