A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'playgrun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
playgrunOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of playgrun in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
in the dry lavvies oot in the playgrun, the timmer seats stukken wi
lifts, like ye played in the playgrun. She wis mair bamboozlit nur
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
, an we heard bits o't in the playgrun. A story aboot a quine an twa
1 matches

Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
y waatched o’er them in the playgrun they could be trusted,
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Bullied, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Jist playgrun banter, the teachers think on page 55

1 matches

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Fan oot in the playgrun the quines wir the worst on page 25

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 58 - .. an the SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
r or fae yer ain 21st century playgrun, or if ye hae a Scots spoken on page 111

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
He scored twenty goals in the playgrun
1 matches

General Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
d play wi a tanner baa in the playgrun at denner time, an Ernie wad on page 65

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
thon. Scots is a leid ae the playgrun and hame, ae bairnies and gra on page 3

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
wid tell jokes in the school playgrun at playtime, we used tae tell on page 46

1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Efter mentionin grannies, the playgrun an humour, she gaes on tae re
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
self-isolatin rooks patrollin playgrun, nebbin, gaitherin an blether on page 77

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Hughie, who had juist gien a playgrun soliloquy tae mairk the arriv on page 19

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Oor playgrun wus alang tha shore on page 2

1 matches

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