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The word 'poond'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poondOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4136
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 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poond in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
up and sell their erse fur a poond ago tae dirty auld men. Jist on page 110
ight. Eight hunner quid fur a poond, No bad eh?" on page 117

2 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
faces caked in makeup fae the Poond shop, their short revealin se
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
vert a hauf price sale at the Poond Shop? Or wus it when ye thoch on page

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
'She's warth a hunner poond or mair. on page 13

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
it aff ye. I'll gie ye fifty poond. Whit dae ye think o that, eh on page 54
They'll be sellin him by the poond aw ower the country the morn' on page 86
cogs then stert tae grind and poond, on page 91

5 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
uestions speirit the elements poond. Licht braks, nicht faws, loc on page 52

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@the_gellick - hunnerd poond per session - wile chape! (2014) twitter link