A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plonkers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.6 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences65 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of plonkers in Corpus

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Central

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
a total mystery why they two plonkers Leighton and Goram were getti
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lcourier question is theres 2 plonkers have actually liked this post (2021) twitter link
r - scottish cup doesnt need plonkers like yous in it - clowns oh (2020) twitter link
@pieandbov aye there the plonkers that get pished oan a couple (2020) twitter link
re players - n the coaches r plonkers - n nae comment lol (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
alise yun isna how it works?! Plonkers. Imagine goin tae yun length (2021) search twitter