A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

punter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 7.2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1514 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of punter in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s nae different fae any other punter fae the toon. Ah mean, even t on page 67

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
6 o clock, anither punter is happily on page 61
9 o clock, a punter is only eftir one thing on page 62

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
even heard o this Coont Olaf punter, and hadnae a scooby whit he' on page 15
insteid o haunds. There wis a punter that wis awfie, awfie fat, an on page 47

3 matches

White, Ian Nimmo Lallans 73 - Whit credit crunch, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
he nabbed the narrest punter haundy : on page 51

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
whit nondyploom belangs whilk punter, but he's swurn tae saicrecy. on page 59

1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
imaginations o, your average punter. He remerkit in 1795: ‘To a
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
I’m jalousin your average punter, e’en if they’r a Scots s
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s case, or in the case ay the punter - tae enrich their lives.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
a lapsed Catholic an general punter that happens tae be a penter
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
reason tae hassle Nicky. Her punter is the wan wha shud be worrie(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
brother - or pm me - n as a punter al gee them a mention lol - (2020) twitter link

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
gee it awa fer free withoot a punter turning their nose up at it! (2018) search twitter