A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plinky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 0 20.9 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences150 14 0 1 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of plinky in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
26. The Tale o Plinky frae Plong
o the wee-est Plong ava, caad Plinky. He’s roon an fat wi twa pi
ile’s lums. Bit aince, puir Plinky wis awfa
ters an yirdy teeth... bi nae Plinky. Fin the sun birled up in the
Bit Plinky kent fit tae dee. He thocht o
14 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
. Bus shelter, peerie ponies, plinky boat and double decker Belmon(2013) search twitter