A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pupil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pupilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
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 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 pupil in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Mistress Petrie, I wis a good pupil, on page 18

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
ctre o a six year aald skweel pupil shooting daid, the ither day,
the ither day, anither infant pupil in a Michigan elementary skwe
2 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
written by Owen Irvine, an S6 pupil at Banff Academy.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
, owerset an illustrated by a pupil the day. The bairns accessed (2021) twitter link
@OrkneyWirds A pupil at Banff Academy once spiered (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
n general. Whan speirt, ae P7 pupil o Letham PS reponed, "Ah'm no
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
She knows nearly every single pupil an quite a lot ae thir parent on page 33

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
wha wes his ‘fag’ (a yung pupil wha cairries oot scodgie wark
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
placed wan face doon on each pupil's desk. Haein distributed the on page 41
e belt wis designed so that a pupil's ootstreitched haun cud be s on page 42

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
he verra centre, in the bleck pupil, a wee spairk o wild exciteme on page 57

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
promote equality an help ilka pupil benefit fae education, wi par
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Teacher an pupil support an resoorces
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
dess decided tae pey her auld pupil a veesit. Disguisin hersel as
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
s like we werenay teacher and pupil anymore. We were Rovers. Two
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
the bins please! Nixt time a pupil says grammar exercises are po(2017)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
lang afore A wis born, ane ex-pupil o at
1 matches

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