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The word 'pe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62212
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 44.4 10 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 pe in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hid's in the syllabus for PE, on page 156

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Floss! Is dis da lovely peérie dug in da photos you sen on page 48

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e day'!l come fan there winna pe a sinngle steen left upo the on page 115

1 matches

General Northern

McBeath, Lorraine Tales Fae The Doric Side - The New Quine at School, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
But, like me, she hates PE on page 54

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
wallet. She grabbed it an ran Pe. doon tae Princes Street. The on page 81

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Heelands, I remain, till time pe no more, yours till teath, an
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ass or she disnae huv tae dae PE. or somethin pure unbelieveab on page 76
y bits. She wore trackies tae PE. the other day instead ae sho on page 94
We wur in the PE. changin room gettin changed on page 95
an excuse tae get oota daein PE. on page 96
liftet her R.FC. ring oot the PE. valuables box by accident. H on page 107
Also on pages 133, 137, 169
9 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
deodorant the day: it wis in PE an ah never actually seen it
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A guidance teacher n the male PE teachers, who often took it u on page 46

3 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Tae view non-pe cowsers in that Tom Mix Laund on page 79

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
e tea," the _ Hatter reponed. Pe on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
es lassies. Mony an adventure pe we had thegither. on page 9

1 matches

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