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The word 'peth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pethOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.2398
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 46 18 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 174.7 14 1
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 peth in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Freeman, Rebekah Honesty, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, weans
a sunlit peth,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
jirg, an made my road up the peth wi a canny fit, nae sign o on
the yett lood, an walk up the peth wi a Ay, hou's it gaun? til a
finger for tae pynt alang the peth an I waited for him tae say S
ay: he juist glowers doun the peth till I jalouzes he isna juist
y daunerin her lane doun this peth ablò the bonny blue sky, the
6 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
lt sen Tammas stoitert up the peth on hiz gate hamewart frae
hames. He knaws at a seicret peth wynds up a
e. He wes pulled bak onti the peth. Tammas Grunstane
Tammas serssit out the peth doun the Sauchtrie Burn an ga
4 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e glaur an gress o the craigs peth.
nnin on insteid up the craigs peth. Miss Marjoribanks chowked on
saw the peth dwinin awaa til the far-aff c
speed until the craigs peth shawed glaury an gressy at th
4 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
eptable, an rins awa doun the peth an oot ontae the road, no eve
omes scrievin oot an doun the peth in her gounie an curlers, her
ley wee yett an stours up the peth tae whaur the’r aaready sic
e as thay cam up the neeborin peth. “Ye’ll be haein a job re
4 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e meet up wi Trev on the brig peth, whan - on page 25

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
a wrangeous peth amang the yabble on page 40
O flouerless peth an broken tree, on page 70

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 79 - Oot o the Mooths o Weans, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
rag cam skippin up her gran's peth. Jist tae see gin the puir au on page 93

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ll-of-galloway.co.uk), tae Co'peth in the east wi its dramatic h on page 65

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
yett it the fit o the Hoscote Peth, yonner.
erdins o Ootersyde an Hoscote Peth
’ick, it wur tied in wi the Peth Heid
cuid hev been up the Hoscote Peth an, alang afore the Peth Heid
an, alang afore the Peth Heid herds hoose tae the Hosc
14 matches

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