A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pressie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of pressie in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
in, he came up behind me wi a pressie. on page 27

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
hat A chose that year's Santa pressie. Callum had taen the HND stud
time again, A’d drawn Jack. Pressie, again “Nae bother at aw’
2 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wee faces when ye haun them a pressie jist maks yer day a lot brigh(2020) search twitter

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
@C7CBM Wiz a pressie(2020) search twitter