A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pointan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0 6 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences60 4 2 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of pointan in Corpus

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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
she, o course," sade e Dodo, pointan till Alice wi wan finger; an on page 25
before he went mad, ee ken-" (pointan wi his teaspoon at e March Ha on page 68
who are these?" sade e Queen, pointan till e three gardeners who we on page 76
e!" sade e King triumphantly, pointan till e tarts on e table. "Not on page 118

4 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the gate her erms flyan aboot pointan tae the field, the gerdeen an on page 129

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
agall, jumpan tae her feet an pointan at nummer fower. ‘Dumbledor
1 matches

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