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The word 'perfec'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
perfecOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of perfec in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e godless dee att. Ye maun be perfec, jist as yer Fadder in hivven on page 13

2 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
land international wiz class. Perfec in for Cossye(2020)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
bit A cannae be perfec aw the time,
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
awthou the perfec silhouettes on page 44

1 matches

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
side at naebdys fone fits in? Perfec fer pittin a wee boatle a hau(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
box, gye sonsy, wus cairved a perfec epple. Tha epple wus laik tae
aa a bonnie rid epple. It was perfec, sappy leukkin an bricht —
ifu wile rose-bush, covert wi perfec flooers smellin affa sweet.
3 matches

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