A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

poond Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 5.3 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1110 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of poond in Corpus

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Central

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

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

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

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

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

Ulster

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