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The word 'persons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
personsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41811
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 persons in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
in tree persons an twa numbers firbye, as sha on page 57
ssessive determiners fir tree persons an on page 65
an hae (idda siccint an third persons on page 71

3 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
is book, "Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high till on page 114

1 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
conversation wi the person or persons in front o ye. Wiz quite impr
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
lone? If yer gettin' aw Young Persons railcard aboot it fit aboot a(2015)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
angande in the contre lede ma persons with hym bot thai that he wil
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
im he wis seen by a person or persons unknown who grabbed his weapo
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
it out of some important law persons grasp and ingested it quick,
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
his book, "Rule Forty-two. Aw persons mair'n a mile high tae leave on page 116

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
huid hear ony o thae indulgit persons . . . an therefore, afore God on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
trategie and consult wi "such persons as they conseeder appropriate on page 19
Meenisters maun consult "sic persons as they conseeder appropriate on page 20
ritie maun consult interestit persons on thon elements o the plaun on page 39
sters maun consult interestit persons. The explanatorie notes state on page 47
sters maun consult interestit persons in preparin the guideship. on page 51
Also on pages 52
6 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
e nyirps; small insignificant persons, objectionable niggling littl on page 33

1 matches

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