A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'percy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
percyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 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
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 percy in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Peedie Percy Pigeon prinked apin the dyke, on page 57

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
flooers grew richt aside it. Percy the polar bear wis streekit o
“Fine foreneen Percy.” quo Jessie. “Can I makk
Sook awa, Sook awa” cried Percy. “I’ve haen ma dook for t
3 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
that have been as diverse as Percy. (2020) twitter link

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ble Miscellany, Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English on page 69

1 matches

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