A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pawn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences106 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of pawn in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
But whit aboot the man, the pawn atween twa gamblers? on page 28

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Ye see a lassie as a pawn in yer twisted fuckin game, on page 34

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he rest o ma life. A man in a pawn shoap windae wis eyein up ma on page 55

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
the poseition o Scotland as a pawn in Frainch-Inglis weirs. In p on page 131

1 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Tae pey oor bills she’d pawn yer sark,
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
he's awa wi yer claes tae the pawn, she wanted 5 n 6 but they an(2020) search twitter

Doric

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
n o thaim! I wadna myn bein a Pawn, gin I cwid jist Jyne in - f on page 32
e she turn't roun an said, "A pawn traivels twa squares in its f on page 34
l Ailice's mynin at she wes a Pawn, an wad hae tae mak her meeve on page 35

4 matches

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