A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pleat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pleatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.652
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
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
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)

Occurrences of pleat in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n twistit inte a funcy French pleat. on page 29
e's ample cleavage; er French pleat hid collapsed; a bittie o cav on page 32

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ik hair pued back in a wechty pleat near as thick as a shelt's ta
gged back in a smeeth-caimbed pleat, hair the colour o roosty iro
er the dyke, pechin, her reid pleat stottin aff her back, bit it
3 matches

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