A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

platter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 1.5 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences117 1 0 1 0 2
Number of authors8 4 1 1 2

Occurrences of platter in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
A lassie buys fae a platter on page 6

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hey want blood. Ma heid oan a platter. And nuttin ah say, or dae, w on page 53

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
hey want blood. Ma heid oan a platter. And nuttin ah say, or dae, w
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Seafood Platter
The waitress brung ma seafood platter Some o’ which wis jeest oot
2 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
it wis a muckle-great delft platter for servin,
pie-dish or platter? Which is the classic ashet?
2 matches

Doric

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
el fauret dumplin restin on a platter on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Stone Age seafood platter ?? Found in a 6000 yr old mid(2016) search twitter

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Baptiser on a platter!" Tha king wus wile annoyt ab on page 9

1 matches

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
They licked tha platter clean. on page 12

1 matches

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