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Use in varieties of Scots

pounds Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 6.2 15.1 59.6 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2912 10 6 1 0 0
Number of authors19 9 8 1 1

Occurrences of pounds in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Hundred pounds,' the suit says. 'For doing n on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
st handed him twelve thousand pounds to write a play about why his on page 50
be no more than five thousand pounds. But don't worry. Eventually on page 52

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Think o auchteen pounds in the mornin.' on page 113

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Millions o pounds worth o plant wir destroyed, on page 79

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
It's the last straw - five pounds is naught tae hur. on page 15

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
has sellt us aa for pounds an pence." on page 54

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
y to the king the soume of xx pounds.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n it shut, the dug’s weight pounds intae it, pushin back at me,
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
clothes and tied about fifty pounds of pig iron about his feet an
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s inside, gettin louder as it pounds alang the loabby, thuddin int
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ry Lineker millions o' feckin pounds tae talk pish and mak it mair(2021) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, "we charging forty Engleesh pounds." on page 7

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
useful, id's worth a hundred pounds! He says id kills all e rats on page 22

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
st you one hundred and twelve pounds," be the lassie ahin the
"Jist the usual, twenty pounds worth". Plastic gaed Jonsar a
2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
or a hunner an fifty thoosand pounds an that it wid be paid on the
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
an that jist lost thoosands o pounds worth o dental work. I ran oo
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@d_anderson878 tweeted
. And if I ever win a million pounds I will give out ten pound not(2020) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah won five pounds on the thunder ba hinmaist ni(2018) search twitter
e wifie - ah won twinty five pounds on the national lottery hinma(2018) search twitter

@Franwella tweeted
ook after the pennies and the pounds'll look after themselves!(2011) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
t the Grammar, fur twenty-wan pounds doon. on page 3
Me lesson cost me eighty pounds. His wife sent me the bill. on page 8
ckle then - cheust twa-three pounds each week on page 33
n the jackpot - four million pounds the night?" on page 40
'Three hunder pounds! You're aff yer heid! We dinn on page 51
Also on pages 79
6 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
up, an took da answer doon ta pounds, shillins an pence. on page 112

1 matches

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