A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pod'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
podOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 pod in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Øyvind birls a pod in his lang on page 6
san an tirled the soond o her pod tae injine. "-so it must be u on page 44
m gansey, unhaps her bauchelt pod an jacks hid in. This weys in on page 73
noo ~ sheu shills her peedie pod, happan hids cell in a sark, on page 74

4 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ak a swim. We didna ken dat a pod o orcas had been offshore a p(2016)
w they were east. There was a pod in fair isle dis week so keep(2016)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
raa peiy's straicht oot o thi pod's, "Majic." En ov coarse we w on page 6

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
h in their wye. Like piz in a pod they war, blin- fair, wi snot
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
oot the tither. Twa pizz in a pod."
sel an the bronze-tinted lift-pod that wheeched him near tae th
Syne he glided doon the lift-pod tae the grun, trampin ben tae
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
his beak, an set aff wi the I-pod deistin ahin
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
, desperately haudin shut the pod bays doors at Dover. Ah'm tal
1 matches

Glasgow

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Peas in a pod
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
oot o a lang-shillit pod an licht wi on page 21

1 matches

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