A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pul'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 4.4 1 1
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 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 pul in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
wae the push an pul on page 51
The sea canna resist the pul o the moon on page 118

2 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
Simmy8 himmin Simmy, gaen tae pul yer beets oan again mannie? T(2015)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Parlie, an jist aboot aw the pul sowels that try tae pass them on page 36

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
gin Labour, an for Labour tae pul oot the anti-Tory caird efter
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@BrodieDru away and pul sum teeth oot #socalleddentis(2012)