Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

petty	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5	5.6	4.5	19.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	16	11	3	2	0	0	0
Number of authors	12	8	3	1

Occurrences of petty in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
fo isnae but beside the usual petty differences n family shite, t on page 38

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Becomin blinded by a world ae petty crime. Masit ae thum wur too on page 90
ae Edinburgh's maist prolific petty criminals. A vast variety ae on page 169

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
jist didnae ken their place! Petty, vindictive behaviour. Nou, t on page 109

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - Napoleon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
lst Hudson Lowe laid doun his petty rules;
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
the petty sins o Earthly men.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
olis were perplexed, he was a petty criminal but an unlikely murd
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Whin a man's a liar an’ a petty thief Thur's justice whin 'e
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
, raither than be thocht o as petty. The hostler kent this, an ke
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
determination tae exact some petty vendetta against these two ca
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
aw the wannabe gangsters. The petty criminals and drug dealers wh
1 matches

Doric

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
“Incorrigible, a petty thief and a menace to society
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ss Broon luikin fondly at her petty.
1 matches

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
t till Wednesday to open. How petty can you get? Just think of th (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu sorts oot every petty squabble, on page 23
nst them, and hid seems kindo petty tae mock, on page 42

2 matches