Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pensioner	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.3	1.5	11.8	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	11	3	8	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	8	3	5

Occurrences of pensioner in Corpus

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Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
efter he wis oot the door. A pensioner like hessel cuid screive whan on page 16

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
tak awa free TV licences fae pensioner war veterans. Sheer hypocrisy(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
either another Ma or an auld pensioner sitting oot at her back door (2022) twitter link

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'But ye canna dae aat. A'm a pensioner.' on page 78

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
id t'imsel, ma dream date's a pensioner an she's faain te bits afore on page 61

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
It wis an auld age pensioner that wis haein the roup. He h
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
o her gairden a block o fower pensioner’s hooses backed ontae it. T
the hoose so she’d use her pensioner’s bus pass and ging awa mai
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
dding! And yon prices!! I'm a pensioner! ?? https://t.co/aMfFMz6llL(2016) search twitter
@MotherwellFC I'm a pensioner and Support the dandy dons bi(2018) search twitter