A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pauper'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pauperOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.552
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 pauper in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
parish hid beeriett him in a pauper’s grave. The parish hid a s
iz removed tae await the next pauper. Nae marker wiz allowed.
the undertakers waitin wi the pauper’s coffin. Doctor Webster ne
ye hiv in stock. This isna a pauper’s funeral! This is tae be t
4 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
nae maitter whither tocher o pauper or king. on page 100

1 matches

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