Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plaise'

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Use in varieties of Scots

plaise	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	29.1	5	2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)	54.5	3	2

Occurrences of plaise in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
very wye, an naethin seems ta plaise dem!" on page 53
"My name is Alice, if it sood plaise your Majesty," said Alice, as on page 81
"If hit sood plaise your Majesty," said Two, soon on page 82

4 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
On da Trojan plens no plaise you? Why dui you hate him?"
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
." "Aam gan tae transform eis plaise entae a richt paad tae bee pr on page 33

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the border, which micht jist plaise monie fowk up here. on page 8

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a crood, "Maistèr, A beg ye, plaise tak a luk at ma sinn! He's th on page 86

1 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
in ye hae loast yer envelope, plaise sen bak til:
bodie leeves here fur ordnar, plaise answer speirins H7 tae H10 on
2 matches