A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pompous Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences65 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of pompous in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
self-conscious, mebbe a scart pompous, bit pairt o whit A wis raxin on page 33

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
he'd come aff the phone. "The pompous twit... why daed that nice we on page 1

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
the ECHT aa richt, unner the pompous, foubreekit spiel o the high on page 75

1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Of a pompous moontide
1 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
ooch @JimSpenceDundee @unherd Pompous, patronising….had tae stop r (2022) twitter link