A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'perform'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
performOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12316
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 9
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of perform in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
atheran o dialect writers tae perform thir wark. Wir absolutely del
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
n gie them the confidence tae perform for the pleesure o ithers.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
sae wis trainin new dugs tae perform auld tricks. Pat Duguid wis a
ion, sae transplant teams cud perform aside each ither. Gin they wa
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oay who wouldnae hesitate tae perform his ain version ae stigmata o on page 123
y thoat ah wis gonnae huv dae perform the Heimlich manoeuvre oan th on page 166

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ckin Houdini himself couldnae perform an escpae fae that seat.
caviar up here again. Ah’ll perform open hert surgery oan yae. Go
2 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
anbri888 @ILawson27 I saw him perform fairly recently and he had a (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
mid teens A wis stairtin tae perform in pubs an at folk clubs an t on page 70

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
sterious weys, ma wunners tae perform. An A accept nae liability. R on page 50

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
th an, aye, thae wha fail tae perform will be punished. If ye hae b on page 41

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Say your say, an I'll try an perform it. on page 35

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
imilar to ‘deal with’, ‘perform’ etc.:
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ddocks and The Burdies, first perform’t in the 1950s and 60s. As
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
the mair o, as we see she can perform the rare eneuch feat o writin
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
tae tak pairt in ony ploy or perform ony act ettled at the cowping
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Aff tae Bilbao to perform with Iona Fyfe Trio at @salaB(2020)
I’m GIY tricket tae perform at yon first Scots Language A(2019)

@jax6754 tweeted
doea that mean yir coming tae perform at Ed Fringe this year? XXX ?(2015)

@LairnScots tweeted
raw wee video. Lairners could perform their aim Scots poem an film (2019) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
perform tae worl' cless stannarts. Cu on page 13
arm fer Ulster-Scots ects tae perform langside the bes' military an on page 45

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