Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'privy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

privy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	10.3	33	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	104.8	8	2
LAL - General Central	29.4	22	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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 privy in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
McDade?’ ah sais, still no privy tae the specifics ay oor dest
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cefu demands afore the King's Privy Council - an haud Sir James on page 26
In Embro, the King's Privy Council grew unco worrit at t on page 28
rt oor supplications when the Privy Council in Embro condemned my on page 31
reason o haudin back frae the Privy Council a letter frae the kin on page 35
twalmonth syne by the Privy Council tae suppress the sout on page 37
Also on pages 41, 58
7 matches

Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
privy schuiles an ither sic
1 matches

General Central

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Politics of the Privy Council 1546-1550
s gaitherings wis kent as the Privy Cooncil or Secret Cooncil an
e or baron that wis electit a Privy Cooncillor wis weel-quotit. B
wis weel-quotit. Bi 1545 the Privy Cooncil haed stertit keepin i
1708. In the mid 1540’s the Privy Cooncil haed muckle fash aboo
9 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
– statesman, judge, makar, privy coonsellor and Keeper o the G
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
condemned baith King and the Privy Cooncil.
inued his field preachin. The Privy Cooncil offered a big a rewar
al harshness ….. Ye see the Privy Cooncil wur weel aware that t

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
back in 1682 … the Scottish Privy Cooncil ruled on behalf o Cha
The Privy Cooncil wur mair than furious
t the Lanark Declaration. The Privy Cooncil then slapped a 6000 m

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
he crown, totally against the Privy Council an the great Lords wh
When the Privy Council heard aboot the decla

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
so-cawed great an guid in the Privy Cooncil whae governed the lan

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
urgh Tolbooth whaur ane o the Privy Cooncil visited him tae threa

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
wis arrestit, taen afore the Privy Cooncil an sentenced tae be l
itical situation chainged the Privy Cooncil issued an order tae s

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
in the matter of sae called Privy Council? This was abolished(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
a privy seat... on page 42

1 matches