A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pleats Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences53 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of pleats in Corpus

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Central

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Yer haffets are braw wi pleats, on page 2

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
m-m-mammy likes them. She p-p-pleats them fur me every morn.' on page 106
laddies as much as she hated pleats and pigtails on lassies, and on page 142

2 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Hmmph." Dottie sortit the pleats oan er skirt an adjustit er g on page 69

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Isie tossed her lang reid pleats an sniffed.
1 matches

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