A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

petrie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 1.5 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 1 2 0 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of petrie in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
y Mither’s sister Auntie “Petrie” and her man Uncle Frank or
“Petrie” had married Frank efter he
“Petrie” was an excellent baker (li
Unfortunately it was Petrie and Frank’s turn for the pi
4 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n open the door. "It's Duncan Petrie, in't it?" He peered ower the on page 13

1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Mistress Petrie, I wis a good pupil, on page 18

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@HI_Voices @tattooedselkie Petrie would be a surname found in b (2021) twitter link

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