A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'penned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pennedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41412
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of penned in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
h o England. When Tony Warren penned Elsie Tanner’s immortal lin
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
blow a blaik clood o his ain, penned in the Prefesser's den, readi on page 53

1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
John Skinner he penned Tullochgorum, Doric wis fand
A Doric Dictionar Kynoch penned. Ye’ll see wirds on First B
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
dee, Fit o the Dee" My newly penned song getting its first airing(2017)
Penned a new song tae sing wee Bert (2018)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
That reviled anthem penned bi Dr Arne, on page 42

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
A man in ah eis glory as ei penned doon on page 3

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Roy may hae penned auld Scotia's song,
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ich ir like notice boards, aw penned n tippexed like fuck. The cli on page 24

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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in oot a letter that hud been penned oan a typewriter. It isnae an
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the door. The wee bleck nowt, penned aa winter hoch-deep in shairn on page 56

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General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
, mony a no-looked-for letter penned by - HOOTEL tae himsel, had on page 135

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South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
disposition These words were penned by Bard o' Carngranny: Samuel
1 matches

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